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Listen To The Wind
By La Belle Rouge


Once I thought that I must pray
long and hard each night and day
and if I did I would be blessed
with all I needed, peace and rest
then I finally woke and realized
I was basing my whole life on lies
The same God I’d been told is love
looking down from heaven above
was ready to throw me into Hell
for being human enough to fail
bearing religion like a heavy sack
on fragile bent and breaking back
expecting perfection from myself
giving away my emotional health
for those who didn’t give craps
stabs in the back and face slaps
often dispensed with Bible verses
til fearful shells loaded in hearses
leave this earth for a another place
as an angry God turns away his face
and faith in Jesus was not enough
only the perfect ones and the tough
could be good enough to enter in
if they suffered well and had no sin


And then one day in a forest green
a vision of deep mysteries unseen
An eagle in the sky called my name
And I would never again be the same
droplets of white light dancing on trees
eagles, air and trees, I was part of these
soft breeze imparted touch of his hand
whispers of love in a hate-filled land
And God, who is love, was everywhere
each blade of grass and atom of air
he lived in my heart, was in my soul
part of each other since days of old
and then I knew for I hadn’t before
faith alone opens heaven’s door
and destroys all the captive’s fear
when God reveals himself so near
imperfect I am, imperfect I’ll be
until God,who is love, sets me free
dead religion gropes for God’s hand
faith is alive when God holds man
and honest prayer like breath ascends
where fear ends and love begins



8/3/2009 La Belle Rouge



* Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves. All things are bound together, all things connect.

*Chief Seattle 1854



Music "Listen To The Wind"