Where Man and God are One

Why does Man create God in the first place
Then make him so meanly grudging in grace?
Though Man may create whatever he wants
It is this problem of God which most haunts
As if of some need of authority
Though I find quite enough of that for me
In Man's Godriddenly shared history
To last two lifetimes of feeling absurd

We try to find some meaning in timespace
And say "in the beginning was the word"
Liking to read and liking to order
Others about for fear of disorder
We end up being more disorderly
Denying our place in the family
We hold ourselves aloof because we think
At the waterhole where other apes drink

I would rather not be an ape at all
Would like there to be a God when I fall
But I just hope he is kinder than we
Are and as much misunderstood as me
To see by these same eyes by which I see
That we two are only one and the same
The self which I call by another name
But the self which is myself after all

When questions are begun
Then the other comes in
There the answers begin
Where Man and God are one

+Steven Curtis Lance



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