She started a band
that raised a prayer
that started a chant
a jig, an aire
a movement began
a challenge a fight
which moved like dance
of grace and of light
the community that rose
from the ground to the sky
was full of love
with grit in their eyes
a better day would come
they knew it to be true
because they were the ones
who would see it through.
She started a band
and that's the point.
And lest anyone should confuse this for a political message (which it may be), to be clear: "She" is God in this poem, in my mind.
ReplyDeleteGod's never referred to as female in all of Scripture.
ReplyDelete[Rolls eyes] Seriously? THAT'S what your take away from this post is?
ReplyDeleteIf you want to comment here further, Marshal, answer the questions/points in bold below. Or just move on with this angle that is rather demeaning of an almighty God.
1. You're factually wrong. There are many images of God as a woman in the Bible, figuratively speaking.
("Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb"... "as a mother hen gathers her children beneath her wings", etc)
2. AND, of course, there are images of God using male language, as well. Figuratively speaking.
3. Here's the thing: God's not a man nor a male. God has no penis. No johnson. No wienie or wee wee. There's no data to suggest that. It's really a bit silly of you to make that suggestion, if you are.
God is a Spirit, and those who worship God must worship God in spirit and in Truth, which is to say, penis-less (because that's the fact). As the Bible sort of says.
4. Does God NEED to have a penis for you to feel good about yourself? If so, why? What does that say about you?
5. Presumably, you don't imagine that your "god" needs to have a penis for you to feel good... You're probably just imagining that because MANY of the figurative passages in the Bible that speak of God figuratively as a male or using HE language, you think that is God's preference.
6. Here's the thing: "The bible" nowhere says that it hurts God's feelings or is otherwise wrong to refer to God as SHE - SHE who birthed the world... SHE who birthed nations from HER womb... etc.
Do you recognize that "the Bible" nor God insist that God should be called "HE" and that referring to Mother God or She who loves her children is nowhere claimed to be wrong or improper?