Osler's Razor

Earlier this week I pulled off of my shelf a book that Scott Davis gave me many years ago: Sermons, by Peter J. Gomes.

The next day, I learned that he had died. Gomes was a lot of things-- a clear and insightful writer, a nearly lifelong Republican, a gay man, a Baptist minister, a black intellectual leader, and (most prominently) the minister at Harvard's Memorial Church, and a professor at Harvard's Divinity School. Ronald Reagan chose him to give the benediction at his inauguration.

I didn't know Peter Gomes, but I loved his work, which I sometimes agreed with, and always felt challenged by. Our world is not thick with men like him, and that is too bad. He died at 68, and I wish that there had been more years, because we needed him.

So, let's haiku about those who are gone. It can be a recent loss, or one further back, someone you knew or just knew of.

Here is mine:

Strong, insistent voice-
He said "Jesus unsettles"
He always was right.

Now it is your turn... don't worry too much about haiku conventions this week; just make it three lines and true.