Saturday, January 27, 2024

January 27th

"When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him,'"Rabbi, when did you come here?'" John 6:25

when we evangelicals find
you on the other side of our faith
hanging out with the gender fluid crowd
and wonder, 'why are you there?'
when we progressives find
you out on a Saturday morning
with the red-hatted hunters 
before they head home with
all their trophies in the backs
of their shiny pickups and we
ask, 'what in the world are you doing?"
when we purists and legalists 
line up with our litmus tests 
to determine who is with us
and who we need to be against
while you write in the sand, refusing
to let us see your answers, and 
we keep asking, 'why did you come?"

you just shake your head
at how clueless we are 
after all this time.

(c) 2024 Thom M. Shuman

Venmo: @Thom-Shuman


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