RELIGION INCORPORATED

market strategies
demographic studies
million dollar buildings
exclusivity
stained glass fortresses
perfect pews all in a row
filled with suits and ties
building programs
land acquisitions
flee the inner city
build in the suburbs
lock out the freaks
post ushers like guards
bow to the rich
ignore the poor
fail to penetrate society
ignore the screams
close your eyes
to the war in the streets
build thick walls
isolate yourselves
pile the salt
hide the light
don't get dirty
react too slowly
grip dry tradition
play church
while the spiritual graveyard
inches closer
to your indifference.

Kingdom come.

hope...

is the breath that gives faith the beat love needs.

who is she.

Then I heard another voice from heaven say: 

   "Come out of her, my people, 

      so that you will not share in her sins, 

      so that you will not receive any of her plagues; 

 for her sins are piled up to heaven, 

      and God has remembered her crimes. 

 Give back to her as she has given; 

      pay her back double for what she has done. 

      Mix her a double portion from her own cup. 

 Give her as much torture and grief 

      as the glory and luxury she gave herself. 

   In her heart she boasts, 

      'I sit as queen; I am not a widow, 

      and I will never mourn.' 

 Therefore in one day her plagues will overtake her: 

      death, mourning and famine. 

   She will be consumed by fire, 

      for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.

i thank God.

for putting people in my life to cover my shortcomings. new Kingdom come.