Ads from Paradise

I was flipping
through the
Classified Ads
from Paradise
when I came
across this:

The Powers
That Be
are looking for
Volunteers,

for a demonstration
project to
exhibit the
devotion, the
adoration, the
billowing clouds of
love

The Creator-In-Chief
feels for Creation.

Applicants
should be
deeply flawed,
buried to
their necks
in self-doubt and
the conviction
that they are
fatally infected
with laziness, or
habitually
short-falling, or
unable to
overcome
multiplying variants of
self-inflicted
ineptitude.

I have already
submitted my
application –
I’m a shoo-in –
but I am
assured that
no one
will be turned
away.

I’m also told
that with
this demonstration
of the Divine
Embrace,

the Intention
is to overwhelm
any resistance
you may have
to being
celebrated for
being exactly
the Screw-Up
you are.

(Photo by Sergio Gonzalez; Unsplash)