You are gods*

"Has a more ominous and marvelous phrase ever been uttered by the All-knowing?

Hold your first child in your arms and feel genesis-like, 

then stand in the cataclysm of addictions and smell sulfur on your breath.

Sit in the reverberating atmospheres of choral voices lifted in stained light cathedrals 

and afterwards pull the trigger with a calloused hand.

In your dusk grief, curse down the holy heights of all the thrones above the Pleiades, 

and in the dawn kiss the feet of the sacred as you take wine to your heart and bread to your flesh.

Make love to the dream virgin, bedded in faithful matrimony, 

and rape the unloved having the nightmare.

Be born into the house of the Divine by undeserving love and grace,

and burn it all down in blind accusations till only your ignorance is left to fellowship within the empty room.

You were brought up from the pristine red clay of Eden, 

but you’ll perpetually live East of the gate of the flaming sword.

You are gods…that will exist eternal, 

but forever be cast in the choices of time."

*Jesus in John 10:34

Pastor Eric, Jacob's Well, Spokane Wa. 

As I read through this I was reminded of - "For I do not do the good I want to do, 

but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing" from Romans 7:19