Who told you that lie
Who told you that lie, Christian?
Separate----sinfilled---guilt ridden----self-disgusted flock member,
perennially lost----clinging----crying for redemption
Always apologizing, and for what?
Lowly worm, crying out
from the wilderness of your deceived heart
Who told you that lie?
To discern, to stand apart, to engage, to nurture and give milk,
To protect , to kill, to eat
to want, to love and to give back
To love and to love
Who took your God, Christian?
Who told you that lie?
Is the tree ashamed of its roots, so firmly embedded
In the sweet nurturing earth-soil?
Its tender leaves embrace the light
And the tree is one with the two
And no
It is not ashamed.
And you are somehow different?
Who told you that lie, Christian?
------Larry W.