of how to come to terms with the divine

 

an emotional hijack

I am having a hard time

dealing with a friend's sureness 

that his belief in Jesus

as the answer to all questions

is anything I can fathom,

let alone appreciate,

for, to me,

what is real,

and what is true,

require me to challenge myself

to question, to think,

to realize and "get"

that the universe,

expresses itself in gradation,

that the answer to questions is not simple,

that God wants us to doubt and to grow,

for example, in gender, the binary is a truth for only some,

and we deny who others are when we distort what is

to fit what we think should be,

in terms of religion I cannot forget to think,

I cannot forget to consider,

I cannot forget that a person's sureness of revelation

might feel true to him

but might be tragically limiting 

for the rest of us,

my love for Jesus hears within that reality

that we must be greater than the lesser within us

that projects itself onto the divine,

the divine that challenges us to enlarge our hearts,

to realize that "the least of these" are our brethren,

and that we can become greater than we realize.

by Henry H. Walker

September 15, ‘25