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    God’S Thunder in the Sky: Reaching Out
    God’S Thunder in the Sky: Reaching Out
    God’S Thunder in the Sky: Reaching Out
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    God’S Thunder in the Sky: Reaching Out

    By Max Roytenberg

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    Gods Thunder in the Sky presents a collection of poems offering a wide-ranging exploration of the nature of faith in our contemporary environment from the point of view of octogenarian Max Roytenberg. They, in part, represent his struggle to better understand the world around him. He seeks to communicate his perceptions to his fellow man in the hope that they strike responsive chords and represent some truths about our world that others can identify with.

    Written over a period of fifty years, these verses sometimes challenge God, sometimes offer appeals to God for his attention, and sometimes offer warning about the cataclysm humanity faces through the absence of faith. Throughout the collection, the poetry seeks to command new ways of looking at life. It focuses on the conflict in thought between the undeniable beauties and wonders of human existence and the horrors of the same, as well as squaring this with the idea of the existence of a deity closely involved in human affairs.

    Gods Thunder in the Sky offers challenge, humor, puzzles to solve, and rhymes to delight the ear as well as the mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 28, 2011
    ISBN9781462045761
    God’S Thunder in the Sky: Reaching Out
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    Max Roytenberg

    Max Roytenberg, born and raised in Winnipeg, is a Canadian who lives in Ireland and spends some of the winter months in Arizona. An economist and businessman by trade, he and his spouse have had nine children between them and currently have eight grandchildren.

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      God’S Thunder in the Sky - Max Roytenberg

      Copyright © 2011 by Max Roytenberg.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4620-4575-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-4574-7 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4620-4576-1 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011914647

      Printed in the United States of America

      iUniverse rev. date: 11/18/2011

      Contents

      DEDICATION

      PREFACE

      SYNOPSIS

      I

      Early Deliberations

      II

      SECOND THOUGHTS

      III

      Stories I Tell Myself

      IV

      Reading My Bible

      V

      ASKING QUESTIONS

      VI

      Looking Forward

      VII

      COMING TO TERMS

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      DEDICATION

      This work is dedicated to Miryom, who, in spite of over fifty years of distracted inattention, had love on offer when I came calling, bold and brave enough at last to assault the proud tower. My muse, she has liberated me, gifting me with the power and the strength to pen these offerings. She is the sweet Cookie of the High Tea of my life.

      MMR, July, 2011

      PREFACE

      The writer, a Canadian, of parents who arrived in Canada in the 1920’s, was born and grew up in Winnipeg. His was a taste of the immigrant experience through his parents. He is by training an economist who suppressed and sublimated his writing talents into the requirements of a business career in Canada and in undeveloped areas of the world focused on the disadvantaged as a food industry consultant. He has been a civil servant, a senior manager with many subordinates, a public affairs representative and an individual entrepreneur. He is a survivor who has travelled widely in contact with a variety of societies.

      These poems have been written by the author over a period of over fifty years, but primarily since arrival in Ireland. They, in part, represent his struggle to better understand the world around him, in this volume with particular attention to faith. He is seeking to communicate his perceptions to his fellows in the hope that they strike responsive chords that represent some truths about our world that others can identify with. He hopes to generate insights as well as entertain.

      The writer, in his eighth decade, lives in Ireland and spends some of the winter months in Arizona, U.S.A. He and his spouse of similar age have had nine children between them, and currently have eight grandchildren.

      SYNOPSIS

      The writer, in his eighth decade, still struggles with issues of Faith. These writings explore the development of his feelings in this area of human thought. The conflict in thought between the undeniable beauties and wonders of human existence, its horrors, and squaring this with the idea of the existence of a deity, is the essential subject of these writings. His writings describe the aging experience and his perspective at this stage of his life. He explores the many aspects of the living experience, its impact on himself and those important to him, in today’s world, all this against a backdrop which may or may not include a deity, involved or uninvolved in human affairs.

      I

      Early Deliberations

      God’s Thunder In The Sky

      Bringing order out of chaos beyond human imagination to create a universe,

      Our globe in its formation with fire and thunder and foaming limitless oceans deep,

      The thunder and fierce lightning cause fearing humans to disperse,

      The awesome power of nature’s forces here surround us and they never sleep.

      The unheard cry-the wounded damaged in some painful way—their cries are wafted carelessly in the air—

      The cruelty of heedless humankind—men are shrieking heavenward for quick redress.

      God seems to pass silently—blind and indifferent to injustice—no evidence seen of attendant care,

      Count wave on wave of wrath stored up, witness centuries of human sins to confess.

      Is this a universe of Nature’s forces spinning out the logic, each event a trial

      Played out against the vast canopy of infinite space so that every possibility can be fully plumbed?

      Is this tiny grain of sand just another subatomic in a vast deterministic file

      Without a rationale the mind of man can fathom-have we to a view of pointless life succumbed?

      Could there yet be a

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