Enshrining the Status Quo

“The inertia of a lifetime is not undone in a day.”

― Roger Walsh, Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

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I am afraid

and so I will resist change

I am sated

and so I will protect what I have

I have power

and so I will exercise it

so often we take a stand

for morality

for a way of life

for a concept

even for God

and what we are really doing

is enshrining the status quo

we see it in our faith

and all too often in our morality

and above all in our religious fervor

the Sacred is always calling us to let go

to move forward

he moved Abram to move into the unknown

to a place “that would be shown”

he moved the disciples to follow Jesus

into an uncertain future

he told Peter, do not call unclean what I have called clean

over and over and over and over again

God has called his people to let go

and to move on

and yet

we are stolid people

inert

the frozen chosen

maybe we should take

the Sacred’s

advice