Poem for the Elhakawati Theatre

There have unfortunately been times in the history of the United States when actors, poets, musicians, writers, and people of faith and/or good will were censored because of a culture of fear, prejudice, and hate.  Take time to recognize where this continues in our world in places we support with U.S. munitions and political good will.  

Poem for the Elhakawati Theatre

Who have we become as people of the Christian faith if we try to pretend that faith and politics are unrelated?  How many ways can we dodge the love of Jesus and pretend it has nothing to do with the way we oppress?

Just in case...

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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/06/voyager-unexpected-region?cid=9259134.

I keep coming back to humility as the center of my spiritual life as a Christian.  This is not a self-denigrating statement but a realization that there is so much to 'know' and so little I can claim as my definitive 'knowledge.'

In the face of the unknown, Jesus calls his body, the people of Christ, to listen well to what we do not know and claim little but God's love.  

Christ Jesus calls us to be absolutely firm about the needs of justice and the eternal hope that comes only from trusting God and not ourselves.  He calls us to love and serve  the very present needs of people who are enslaved by laws about marriage, persecuted because they are not Christian, poor because we are rich, and victimized by violence because they have no power to resist.

I wonder what the growing edges of the cosmos will continue to teach us about the growing edges of a God whose love is beyond our knowing.