Saving the Souls of
the Heathens Sunday 11-13-2016 299 words
My God,
the heathens are
arising with the anti-christ,
they have laid in
their guns and ammunition,
they have prepared a
fortress in their hearts,
they have built an
edifice of reasons
to excuse themselves
for their fears
and make it all
right to kill their brothers
and anyone who
thinks differently than them
they cannot tolerate
Your world of diversity, Lord
they cannot tolerate
Your world of infinite colors,
they think that they
have found a key to lock out the truth;
the truth that Your
world is more complicated than any can imagine
and they cannot see
You or themselves in Your Glorious Creation
and they cannot see
how You really work Your miracle
in weaving us all
together into Your rainbow of precious life.
men use the Koran
and the Bible to explain why they should kill each other
and make it ok to
murder children and anything which confuses them,
they create a
narrative, a matrix of reasons and half-truths, to excuse
their hate-speech
and racism, and to blame liberals for the sins we are all guilty of:
ignoring Your divine
Creation, thinking we have a mandate to rape Mother Earth,
ignoring that we are
all Your children and all pilgrims on the path,
ignoring that we all
suffer when we attack and blame each other and forget
'we are all in it together',
and finally, Lord
and Great Spirit of All Life, ignoring Your mandate
that we love and
care for each other and see Your divine Spirit in each other's eyes.
Grant us again Your
Grace, let us be humble and grateful, knowing only You
are Great, and all
of us are just so many blades of grass in Your Holy Sea. Amen
