Wednesday, August 29, 2012

take back your words!


voices speak:
we are 
going to 
take back...

take back our 
country!

take back our 
church!

those are hard words to parse
even harder to hear
more difficult to live!

taking back
implies
sole 
possession
              ownership.


politics is one thing -
church is a whole other matter. 

with politics
we can't get past the fact 
that not one of us 
has sole ownership
of the country.

to suggest 
that taking back the country
is to suggest
that there will always remain 
those who have had 
"it" 
taken away.

if this is what politics is about
then we are sorely missing the point.

we
i recall
are the people.

WE!

who is taking?
who is losing?
because in the end
"we" 
are not being served
no matter 
what side of the aisle talks!

in the matter of our country
to say it is 
being taken back...

well if this is all 
we can say
then i pray

because
such talk has nothing to 
to with the founding 
word
"we".

we
the people


church is a whole 
other matter.

who are "you" 
taking the church from
when "you" say 
"we" are taking the church back?

do you
really have ownership 
of the church?

when people say 
they are taking back the church


they might as well 
be saying they are taking 
the church back from 
God...
Christ...
the Holy Spirit.

the church is not yours.
the church is not mine. 


what needs to be
taken back
are these 
words

such words 
only
serve to tear down
and divide.






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