A Walk on the Wild Side

In

my soul

there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church

where I kneel

prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist……

in

my soul

there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church

that dissolve

that dissolve in God

                                                Rabia

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We like things concrete

well defined

we like our spirituality focused

something we can

grab

and contain

and wrap our often feeble minds around

words on a page

rules

and so inexorably

we narrow God down

and make what is infinite

small

and what is living

dead

Jesus came to blow apart our understanding

and experience of God

and we have made our worship

of the divine mad man

stilted and contained

there is something deeper

wider

bigger

than what we can imagine

something wilder and

dangerous

lurking

dare we go inside to that place

dare we kneel

a let God

be

and lose ourselves

dissolving

into

wonder