Good God

"Out beyond our ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field;

I'll meet you there."

~Rumi

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Interesting our ideas of right and wrong...

our two dimensional dogmatic "morality"

which, drowning in Love's ocean that covers multitudinous missteps,

goes down measuring misdeeds

in jots, tittles, and teaspoons...

ignorant of the Metadata, the Matrix,

and worse, of the Great Mathematician Himself...

How lonely is this Wisdom

this True Morality

with which Jesus faced down the Pharisees

and got a hooker off the hook

How much we miss

having made our mountains out of minutiae

having traded the God of the Good Book

for the tedium of bookkeeping

having missed entirely the Forest for our idolized little trees

Our Eyes to See fail for blindly staring

at short-sighted subtractions and additions

our carefully made columns

and sticky gold stars...

...When all the while

A Heaven full of stars Waits

For us to Look Up from our flimsy lists and ledgers

To See instead with sextant hearts

Just-Because Beauty,

 Mercy for Miles,

and the sin-swallowing Grace of God

Whose Love has everything to do with His Goodness,

and nothing

 whatsoever

to do

with ours.

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"I pray that you may apprehend and grasp the experience of the Love of God, what is the breadth and length and height and depth of it; that you may really come to know, practically, through experience for yourselves, the Love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience; that you may be filled through all your being with the fullness of God, that you may have the richest measure of The Divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself."

-Ephesians 3:18-19, Amplified Version