"We must bring salvation back..."

"You and I must
make a pact.
We must bring salvation back.
Where there is love,
I'll be there..."
- Gordy/Davis


it's time

time to shift our focus
from measuring
spiritual progress
by human outcomes

to the
unseen
immeasurable
resurrection of
all that
is
enduring,
unchanging,
invisible,
eternal --
the
substance
of Spirit,
within

to refuse the
claim of
separation from
the divine Source
of all good...

for you,
or me,
or mine, or
yours,
or ours,
or theirs
or any
or all

no one sundered from
the divine
no one removed from good,
no one sundered from Love

no exception to
the Allness of
God, 
in all.

all deserving of 
our faith 
in all they do
because 
there is love 
everywhere, 
and where there is 
love, 
He is there. 

so,
let's make a promise
to be gentle with
ourselves on those days 
when the world seems to be 
coming apart at the seams, and
 the ledger
is hovering between the red
and the black,
and the engine light  
comes on just east of Topeka 
in the middle of the night, 
and I 
am alone, and
you are weary, or
one of us is 
silent -- 
wrestling with
self-doubt

on those days
and every day...

let's make it our
pledge to
remember
that 

it's about
salvation

let's vow 
to not forget that it's all about 
salvation

it's about  
salvaging all that 
is redeemable --
our joy,
our innocence,
our wonder,
our trust,
our patience,
our humility,
purity,
honesty,
affection,
hope...

oh yes, 
especially 
our hope...

these are the things that
cannot deteriorate with time,
decrease in value,
drop off a fiscal cliff,
become weary with doubt,
or broken by
fear

let's pray that
we are not distracted by
outcomes that fade,
and that we not 
become puffed 
up with self-importance...

a priestly pride 
in human accomplishments,
achievements,
accumulation,
accretion,
or acclaim

hypnotized
by  
self-determinism
sated
by the false convenience of
that which can be
counted in numbers,
stored in barns, or
possessed by men

rather let us be
transfixed on reaching
that which is infinite
in scope and
eternal in the
heavens

absolutely 
awe-struck by 
the beauty of
salvation...

this is
our pact,
our promise,
our vow

to make
salvation the
crown,
the diadem,
the holy grail

the
most desirable
discovery
demonstration,
unfoldment,
manifestation,
sign,
proof
of all
that really
is

the
perfect
evidence
of His
Love...

man, 
sinless, 
innocent, 
holy, 
and wholly 
His.

the rest 
will 
follow, 

the rest 
will 
follow... 

"The emphatic purpose
of Christian Science
is the healing of
sin..."
~ MB Eddy