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From The Restory - Conversations On The Journey (8)

 

My Image Of God


God is love.


                            1 John 4:8


The Conversation




Elements From The Conversation


The Worst Thing We Ever Did


The worst thing we ever did

was put God in the sky

out of reach


pulling the divinity

from the leaf,

sifting out the holy from our bones,

insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement 

through everything we’ve made 

a hard commitment to see as ordinary, 

stripping the sacred from everywhere 

to put in a cloud man elsewhere,

prying closeness from your heart.


The worst thing we ever did

was take the dance and the song

out of prayer

made it sit up straight 

and cross its legs

removed it of rejoicing

wiped clean its hip sway, 

its questions, 

its ecstatic yowl,

its tears.


The worst thing we ever did is pretend 

God isn’t the easiest thing 

in this Universe 

available to every soul 

in every breath


                                                                                                                ~ Chelan Harkin


Music




Much love.


George and Matilda 






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