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Eternal Rest
We pray: - “Good Lord give them Eternal Rest!”
And ask not what our loved ones would like best,
If resting is the thing they want or not,
Preempting thus their wish and that of God.
I think Our Father is a Dynamo,
But theologians of some time ago
Considered that passivity and rest
Is what departed souls deem to be best.
Without some change in stature of Increase
They contemplate inertly in a freeze,
Transfixed in states of immobility
Impassibly throughout eternity.
Impassibility it seems is not
Participation in the life of God,
But fullness, fullness to excess,
And ever growing- blooming - not a freeze
The Living One would scorn paralysis
Amongs His children and abhor the freeze,
Lo! God is Dynamo - would He be pleased
With fullness that can not be yet increased?
Increase, and growth, surprise, and wonderment,
Would go along with bliss and ravishment;-
What disappointment for the young would be
Duration fixed, and its monotony!
If youth holds sway in heaven, then the Lord
Might see some of His children somewhat bored,
For youth, vivacious, likes mobility
And find too flat an eternullity.
Youth might prefer to speedily retire
To low realms where still exists “Desire”
Desire’s increase,- well known element,
That mystics hint at, but not comprehend.
Am I too bold? - maybe - but Charles Peguy
Our literature’s Bach, he is with me,
And in his spledid writings does assert:
“Departed souls are active and alert”
And St, Teresa said: “My heaven’s bliss
Will be to work dear friends for your Increase,
And my beatitude and bliss will be
To work for those on earth incessantly!”
The Lord, the boundless source of all that is,
Life’s bubbling spring - and source of excesses,
May torrent-like with thundering cascade
Overwhelm the theologian’s "Final State”
Might give pyretic impulses to those
That rest in motionless inert repose,
And drive His blessed ones to leap and bound
To seek for MORE upon His boundless ground.
© Elizabeth Dandy
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