Are You My Mother?

Theism is like a newly hatched duckling

It knows it has a Mother

And rightly so.

Yet it will just as easily mistake

An image of its Mother

For the natural thing.

            Science brings us face to face with life’s greatest mysteries

            While Theism rightly states our Dependency in the face of mystery

            Yet Pan-en-theism invites us to see

            That the faces which science and theology both seek

            Are one and the same.

Alas, our minds appear naturally bent to see images of God

Just as naturally as we behold images of the world

But we must never mistake any one image

For God itself.

In the end

Is it really so hard to believe

That we see our Mother

Both inside and out?