No single religious tradition has dominion over love. There is no form of worship that can claim ownership of grace. Hope is a human condition, as universal as are dreams and yearning and peace.
How often do we lose the essential in a fight over the form it takes? What kind of ridiculous critter thinks they can claim faith as a territory, love as property? We plant flags on the moon as if it can be owned by a few of us. We plant flags on the floor of the ocean as if it can be possessed. I suppose it should not be a surprise that we plant god flags, too. Love as a limited resource. Only a ridiculous critter would claim division as the path to unity.
It is holy week in the Christian calendar so I looked up grace in the dictionary: courtesy, good will, to honor, to dignify, forgiveness, decorum, civility, elegance, glorify, honor. Thoughtfulness. Consideration. Decency.
Wouldn’t it be amazing if we pulled up our flags and, instead, extended to others those things we profess to claim?
AMAZING GRACE on ALWAYS WITH US v. 2 available on iTunes & CDBaby
read Kerri’s blog post about AMAZING GRACE
amazing grace/always with us v.2 ©️ 2004 kerri sherwood
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