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Primitive religion is not believed, it is danced!

Arthur Darby Nock

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Browning



Saturday, April 30, 2016

re-finding human

Those on the top of the social order see those at the bottom as subhuman
Those on the bottom of the social order see those at the top as inhuman
Nobody seems to see others as human
                                                          Heard today at a workshop
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it is easy to live in the world of labels
Conservative
Liberal
Muslim
Christian

We no longer even understand what some of those labels
really represent

We have our ideas
About those liberals who do not “love God”
And those conservatives who do not “love people”

but for the most parts labels are no longer truly descriptive
they are just a way of categorizing people
of putting them in nice little boxes
of stereotyping
and
ultimately distilling others down to
a talking point
de-humanizing them

the same is true of adjectives
male, female,
gay, lesbian, straight, and more
rich, poor
saint or
sinner

funny how Jesus seemed to never label people
or worry about the adjectives

for the lover of souls
there were simply people
who for one reason or another
stumbled (often) across his path
there was merely a Mary, or Martha
a Peter, or John, or Lazarus

that is one thing about the Sacred

Sacred always calls us by name
and sees us as a one-of-a-kind miracle

we are simply people

undefined
except by the Sacred Presence
which dances freely
in our hearts

and the unique
divine
design
woven into the fabric of our being

we are simply human
infinitely
precious

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