“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be
sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of
sinners.”
Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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What is god about?
God is not so much about making saints out of sinner
(sorry Soren)
As God is about helping saints remember they are saints
And empowering them to live out their sainthood
God created us good
Full of potential, fire, love, hope, generosity, compassion
It is all in there, until seduced by power, and wealth
And the need for more, and more, and more
We eat the forbidden fruit
And lose our knowledge of good and exchange it
For what is fundamentally unnatural
Greed, fear, hate, anger, loathing, cruelty, apathy.
When we lose touch with ourselves
We take away healthcare from the poor
And make everyone not like “us” an enemy
We wrap cruelty in a lie
But Sacred presence can remind us
who we are
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