Finding Religion

The source of the word religion, the Latin religio, is to “bind back.  Religion is meant to bind us back to the Creator, not to bind us internally with knots of fear, anxiety, and prejudice.  Spiritual, with its root in spirit, or breath, refers to the source of life.

                                                                                      Nancy Kehoe, Wrestling with our Inner Angels, p.51

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what ever happened to religion?

what ever happened to God?

religion, with all its texts, and tomes

its rituals and doctrines

was meant to help us find our way

to Sacred Presence

but something went terribly wrong

God became buried beneath the rubble

of structures

crumbling

falling

eroding

and bearing us down

as they fell

and we have been left with cultural norms instead of gospel

a God of our creation instead of a creator God

judgment instead of grace

exclusion rather than inclusion

fear rather than joy

with a God of our own making

may the fresh wind of the Spirit

blow through the ruins

may the tears of God water the parched earth

and may

love blossom

and the Sacred

dwell in the verdant garden of our souls