Friday, March 25, 2011

"a tapestry of acceptance..."

If I...

from the platform
of my own
cultural,
political,
religious,
personal
self-certainty...

believe that
you are
wrong and
I am right...

haven't I broken the
first cardinal rule of my
own faith mentor
to "judge not?"

have I not banished
myself to
a hell-on-earth
where there
are "others"

others
who can
think,
reason,
act
and react
out from
a position that I
intrinsically feel
is wrong...
opposed to
my
own
dearly
held,
and somewhat
intractible,
inflexible,
unchallenged
sense of
right...
or wrong

what
a hell
this is...

to believe that I live amongst
others
who can think and act
contrary to
the law of omnipotent,
omnipresent,
omniscient
good...

because if I am right
and right is good
and you don't think like me,
you are wrong and
if wrong is not right...
it is not good...right?

my right
your wrong

this is a lonely place,
this land of
me
versus
you.....

an island of
tribal
defensiveness and
"what if"
strategies that leave us
camped upon the
shoreline
waiting for the
next assault
on our
pristine rightness,
our fenced in values,
our shored up
resolve to
never
be
second best,
equally right,
just another option
another path....

If I say that
you are wrong
and I
am right
who is it
that lives on
this hell-fire
island of
intolerance and
fear?

is it you...or is it
me?

But...

what if
I say that
we are
both right
for
ourselves...

what if I say that
there is a
power
impelling each,
and every one of us
to
think,
and reason,
and act
according to a divine
design...

weaving many colors
in all directions
into a tapestry so strong
and beautiful
that
reds and blues,
black and whites,
pinks and lavenders,
tie-dyed rainbow threads  of
every hue and
subtle earth-toned
raffia and twine
leap,
and walk
and pray
a
tapestry
of acceptance
that
holds,
and covers
and comforts us all
with
love...
impartially
and
universally...


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