Who Knows Us By Our Fruits?

A key statement of Peirce and of Jesus before himis that by our fruits we shall be knownIt is not hard to figure out what our fruits areThat would be our outputEverything all of it anything that comes out of usJesus did exempt natural excrescenceslimiting his designation to the products of the heartFrom the heart comes the entire spectrum of each of usfrom wicked and dead wrongto seraphic and right onWhen my friend Will Campbell saidwe are all bastards but God loves us anywayhe was suggesting that there is something to lovein every personIndeed if you guess at the riddle of lifeyou realize that Abbais somehow part of us alland that is is Abba who knows usby our fruitsAnd since our hearts operate in season and outnone of us is without fruits we wish had never seen the light of day and none of us is without fruits that are admirableand finally it makes no differencesave in the unintended but real consequencesof everything we doWherefore we sayWe are indeed all bastardsAnd Abba does indeed love usanywaybeing the only One who actually knows usentirely

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