Immovable Text

Scripture is not authority

Its inspiration

Otherwise

Why keep quoting it and not just do it once and for all?

I know the love of Jesus

Not because the Bible tells me so

But because I feel it in my heart

No book can do that

It just so happens

That what I read resonates

With what’s already in me

In deed, Divine Love transcends

Not only scripture

But the Christian story itself

So to be truly inspired

Holy Word must be borne in every trough

It must bear the deepest and darkest plot of love

Not just for some stories, but for all

And when this Love has done its work

We nonetheless insist that it must die

On ink and paper, buried inside immovable text!

And yet the Gospel truth

Is that between the blowing and crinkling pages of life

This Word rises to live again and again

Each day in our hearts.