Poetry from a Questioning Heart...
reading the Bible It is not in the book but in the being that we find spiritual truth... and yet scriptures are revered...elevated to a holy place, words cherry-picked and chosen, used as weapons and as warnings, not as wisdom or as welcome... words quoted, cited, spoken with a towering authority- and all the while, the very ones who claim the words promote fear and hate, exclusion, war... while words of love, acceptance, and forgiveness get lost somewhere...forgotten... and the One called God, the One called Love, the One Creator of us all gets pushed aside and ...