Thursday, November 29, 2012

Stitching the Bible of our Hearts

IN God
IN Christ
IN our Hearts

The Bible bleeds
A living story of spiritual struggle
Filled with ancient tales told by people just like you and me

Struggling to see ourselves IN God
Struggling to live our lives IN Christ
Then struggling once again
       to meld our sacred stories
       with our daring deeds
              all in the crucible of our Hearts

Yet to literalize these Bible stories
To make them either trivial or truer than our own trodding toes
Is to break trust with the hearts and voices of our ancestors
And lose the stories' soul as much as our own

Objectifying God
Mystifying Christ
And jading our Hearts

Into thinking that stories on ink and paper are somehow more exacting
       than the double sided pages of our own lives of faith and flesh

For in myth we boldly stand IN God
Yet in deed we make our move IN Christ
Thus in both we stitch the bravest and best binding of our Hearts.












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