How do you think, God?

God,
I can’t fathom all the ways You think
‘Cause You are God and I am me.
What bothers me is
People talk about Your words
In greedy, hating, ignorant ways they think;
They turn Your teaching upside down
Using Your teaching as their instrument of
Division, opression, war, and death
Centuries after centuries.

My God,
I know You punish us not for our ignorance
But you probably are not so happy
When we don’t even try to study
Your words seriously to
Understand You just a little more.

When You says, “Love everyone,” I imagine You means “everyone.”
When you says, “Love your enemy,” I imagine You means “all enemies.”
Well, people add “if, but, yet, however…” into Your words
And convieniently turn Your words into their ignorant ideas.

What can I say?
Peope are not stupid
They are just too clever for their own good.

I imagine fixing God’s words to fit our lowly purposes
Is a sin.

Father,
Forgive them for they know not what they do. (Luke 23:34).

Amen

o0o

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