Learning and unlearning

Remember who you are

my mother would say

everytime

everytime

I would leave the house 

for a night out

in our little country town

 

as if anyone would let me forget!

 

and yet I do forget

 

I have a massive case of amnesia

 

oh it is not that I don't have an ide

of who I am

I just don't have a picture of 

who i truly am

who God created me to be

 

I have been taught you see

by so many

who I am

that my image of myself

has become blurred

 

so it is with so many of us

 

each day I listen to people who have learned

they are bad

stupid

a waste of space

selfish

weak

unworthy

unwrothy

unworthy

 

spirituality I have decided

is as much a matter of unlearning as learning

of unlearning all those things

a fallen world has taught us

 

it is a matter of going inside

and finding God

 

 for it is the moment that we find God inside ourselves

that we find ourselves inside God

and it is then that we 

unlearn that which be unlearned

and learn again

what it means to be a child

of God