God’s Passion

Our passions, our lesser aspirations, 
leaden our personal portrait of God.   

Our totem stays stuck as a fence post 
in our self-hallowed ground.
It can’t break our tribal gravity
and ascend the holy mountain.

We waste our strength fighting 
in the foothills
not climbing together
to ascend to the source 
and feel the Spirit at gale force. 

God’s passion, the unity of humanity,
is impossible without our ascension 
through an air-we-all-share humility. 

Each no longer an individual 
but in the One 
a member of the All.

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