Unconditional Love
Unconditional love
Is often quite conditional
Inside our selectively gracious hearts
We withhold due to traditions and fears
Loving sinners but not the sin
Yet we choose the sins we love to hate
We hate the sins we can’t overcome
The ones we deny any knowledge of
The ones we refuse to face
Our self loathing turned into judgement
Spewing verses and regurgitated sermon notes
Until we alienate and polarize communities
Placing the reasoning on the cross
But forgetting the forgiveness that it stands for
We hide out in our white washed guilt
With pointing fingers stretched thin
Judgement reserved for those we know the least about
Handing out scarlet letters like Valentines
Then preaching a message of a loving Kingdom in the sky
Our heaven becomes a gated community
A self-righteous cul-de-sac
Excluding the the ones who make us feel awkward
For the sake of a comfortable eternal retirement
It’s obvious that some great thought went in to this. You have a gift for (and sorry for the rhyme) “judging the believin’, not the heathen” as we have been directed to do. Thanks for ALWAYS being inclusive of the excluded and knowing what holding others accountable is really all about. Wise words. Wise flowing words. Great job J.