"you had to be there"

the priests trapped us in twilight
on the journey toward you, we listened to
how we would be defeated, how difficult
the journey might be

we gave you up for fool's gold and commerce
and when you asked of our deeds
we only begged forgiveness
as if the seed of our soul was you
and seemed entirely tainted.
most of all
we had grown tired of feeding
your arrogance

so we chose humility
and the green earth we could see
in the vertex of each bough
light is sealed and every face
is a testament to your presence

so we sang a prayer of thanks
and danced until we looked
like candles in flame

you said it was the sweetest day
of birth you had ever known.

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[Touché Armada]

Religion breeds blindness! Spirituality entices appreciation I think that is the message to get here.. Perhaps not a message but rather a vision of just how beautiful life and the world is, if its looked at on just the right angle in just the right light.. Anything can look golden, radiant and beautiful.. I don't have much to say, it would just spoil another wonderful piece of art that should simply be appreciated.

I'll be keeping this one Nancy. =)

[J.P. Bristow]

Oh you do impress.

....I can remember as a little girl when I first moved to Canada my neighbor saying because I hadn't been baptised that I wasn't recognized by God. I ran home sobbing hysterically telling my mother that God didn't know I was here. She was then angry and grabbed my hand. She loaded me up into the car and we seemed to drive for hours when in fact it was minutes.

Getting our of the car we hiked up a hillside climbing through brush and bramble and then suddenly she sat beneath a rather large willow tree....patting the seat beside her...we sat and breathed..breathed and sat...and then she asked me "Where do you feel closer to God?" I looked at her confused. She then repeated "Where do you feel closer to God in a church that man built or under a tree which he built?"
I was quiet and then felt a warmth from my heart to toes......for you see my mother was always right.......and much to my delight I hugged the tree literally feeling closer to my God.

To this day I love people who have faith...especially those that have blind faith for it takes a special kind of love to believe in the intangible. I believe in love....I do not belive in organized religion but have complete respect for it. I have hard time when peoples acceptance comes with strings.....Jesus did not question who was worthy for his sacrifice he belived in just us.

Yes I am in love with love- I donot care about gender..race..creed.....I do however care that everyone enjoy the same rights for that is just. Oh how wish we all could just appreciate the gifts we are given and inturn share them.

belief and babysteps is all I cling to now.

[Gandré]

The highest poit is always to see the own truth, create a harmony within oneself and keep everything this in the frame of our own moral values. My favorite stanza was
so we chose humility
and the green earth we could see
in the vertex of each bough
light is sealed and every face
is a testament to your presence ------for gaining a low view of one's own importancce is so significant

Wonderful writing, Nan.