BLIND FAITH IS NOT FOR ME - DON'T EXPECT ME TO "CONFORM" OR TO "OBEY"

 

 

I am a Jew,

By birth, by tradition, by family -

Truly, deeply -

By blood and by borsht.

 

I am a Christian,

An honest to goodness,

Born again,

Baptized,

Christian.

 

I love Jesus -

 

The One called "Savior".

The One

Who is Kind and Gentle -

The Healer,

The Martyr,

The Teacher,

 

The Faithful Jew.

 

I pray

Night and day -

All day -

 And even in my sleep.

I pray.

 

But my God is not your God.

 

My God does not live in a building

Nor in a Book.

 

My God is the Unimaginable.

 

"He" ?

Can't be squeezed between book covers,

And "He" does not bow to any priest.

 

"He"

Started Everything

From nothing,

 

And

 

"He"

 Keeps the galaxies spinning in space,

And the atoms

Doing what atoms are supposed to do.

 

My question is not so much,

"Is there a God?"

 

It is only,

"Does God care about the individual?"

 

Are we the same to God

As the cockroaches

He also made?

 

Phyllis Carter

 

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Blind Faith