<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">The Need That Can Only Be Met</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">You’ve probably heard, as have I,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">That humans are essentially religious.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">That deep in our souls, if not in our minds,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">We find communion with things divine.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">You’ve probably felt, as have I,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">An essential longing, an open heart,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">A want and need which, they say,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">Can only be met by perfect divine love.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">And you’ve probably been told, as have I,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">This somehow proves that God exists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">That we are his or her created children.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">And that the universe itself loves us.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">I’ve no problem that our souls are religious,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">Most especially when I play my guitar.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">I am perfectly convinced this yearning exists,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">And it needs, in fact, a perfect divine love.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">But, my friends, this is the human condition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">Our predicament. We have this perfect need</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">That can only be met by such a love.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">When, in fact, no such love exists at all.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">And this is why, and I mean this,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">There is no opting out. It comes down to us!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">It’s up to us to live love and caring,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">To refuse hate, to stand against cruelty.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">It’s all human nature, after all.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">The Holocaust was not an aberration.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">But neither is love and beauty.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">Where do you stand, my friend?</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">We must create the We.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">We must stay open to our pain.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">We must create our bold community.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">Not perfect. Not divine. Together.</span></p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">Because it’s true, so very much the case.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">You can have faith in this.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">It can and will only come from us.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 15.693333625793457px;"><span style="line-height: 22.82666778564453px;" class="">We have a need that can only be met.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Jon Jackson</div></div></body></html>