“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness”

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Unfeathered unbelief would fall

Through the layered fullness of thermal

Updrafts like a rock; this red-tailed

Hawk drifts and slides, unhurried

Though hungry, lazily scornful

Of easy meals off carrion junk,

Expertly waiting elusive provisioned

Prey: a visible emptiness

Above an invisible plenitude.

The sun paints the Japanese

Fantail copper, etching

Feathers against the big sky

To my eye’s delight, and blesses

The better-sighted bird with a shaft

Of light that targets a rattler

In a Genesis-destined death.

…from “Holy Luck” …from the book, “Subversive Spirituality” …by Eugene Peterson

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…also from “The Message”: Matthew 5:

You are blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.