Souls unbent

“God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enlightenment, our seeing. God wills our forgiveness, our release from sin and guilt. God wills that we see ourselves as God’s beloved. God wills our resurrection, our passage from death to life. God wills for us food and drink that satisfy our hunger and thirst. God wills, comprehensively, our well-being—not just my well-being as an individual but the well-being of all of us and of the whole of creation. In short, God wills our salvation, our healing, here on earth. The Christian life is about participating in the salvation of God.”

Marcus J. Borg, The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith

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we were created to be free

and the world was created to be the place

were freedom lives

call it the kingdom of God

call it Nirvana

call it heaven

call it whatever you want

even paradise

and yet

we stumble on the dark

wander without direction

we are laden and worn

encumbered with burdens our own making

with failure, and fear

hate, anger

we cannot let go

we cannot lift our eyes

to see

we are bent

yet

freedom is ours

we can indeed travel light

for we are reconciled to the Sacred

(whether we realize, or accept it, or

we are lifted by love and light

unbent

we are called home

and we are called to bring

the whole world

along

with us