God’s Proxy

Literary / Arts

God’s Proxy

Elizabeth Rhett Woods

Volume 29  Issue 10, 11 & 12 | Posted: December 15, 2015

How can a God, any god,
choose amongst Its creatures, 
when It is all there is, and
responsible for all? To be 
 
true to Itself, a God must love
the rebel goats for 
their rebellion; the obedient
sheep for their obedience; 
 
must be on every side of
everything that is, It is, 
everywhere and always,
simultaneously entangled 
 
in every being, and cannot
choose among Its many parts;
therefore, a God appoints Luck
Its proxy—that blind, 
 
indifferent force that strikes, or
not, as its nature 
moves it; that cannot itself be
moved by either 
 

How can a God, any god,
choose amongst Its creatures, 
when It is all there is, and
responsible for all? To be 
 
true to Itself, a God must love
the rebel goats for 
their rebellion; the obedient
sheep for their obedience; 
 
must be on every side of
everything that is, It is, 
everywhere and always,
simultaneously entangled 
 
in every being, and cannot
choose among Its many parts;
therefore, a God appoints Luck
Its proxy—that blind, 
 
indifferent force that strikes, or
not, as its nature 
moves it; that cannot itself be
moved by either 
 
prayer, or imprecation. With
Luck a God embraces 
Its entire creation, judging none;
interfering never. 

   

Elizabeth Rhett Woods