I wonder, is God a God of rules,
and rituals,
and certain ways of doing things?
There is place for tradition,
and practices that give symbolism,
and meaning
to what is important.
But I think that God,
who is Being,
calls us to respond in the same vein.
Behold,
we come at the prompting of the Spirit
in our understanding of the Word.
And in our need,
and in our gratitude
and we lay down all semblance of
appearances
and we lay down
in the dust,
all our motivations,
our desire for attention
or affirmation for doing things
correct, or well.
And we open our hearts,
which always starts
with forgetting what
we have learned,
and learning to listen
to something new.
God is always in the creation
business,
always about surprising
and arriving in some
new and different
way.
That might mean throwing
off tradition
and appearances
to the winds
and following his
sandaled feet
and the footprints
left in his wake
where-ever they lead.
Ana Lisa de Jong
Living Tree Poetry
March 2019
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