Unpinnable-down God
I had a PM on the ship today asking permission to use something I'd posted on the Liturgy of Unrest Thread which now resides in Limbo. I vaguely remembered the piece though I'd forgotten I'd posted it there. Re-reading it I wanted to alter the punctuation slightly.
God, Creator of all that is,
You cannot be pinned down
Defined, caged in, summed up;
We might try,
in theology or religion,
To say 'God is x or y';
'He belongs to us';
But you ARE;
Beyond our exclusiveness,
Our cliques, our firm boundaries
Always leading us on,
Pillar of fire or cloud,
The wind blowing where it wills,
A butterfly calling us onwards,
Fluttering just out of our grasp.
And yet,
On the cross, you were pinned down
Or rather up.
Nailed there, left to die,
Dead and buried.
Out of sight.
Gone.
Or so we thought;
But, Unpinnabledown God,
You could not be contained
in that cage of death;
Burst from the tomb;
Rose Again!
I'm not quite sure of its copywrite position. I'm fairly sure it predates the ship's claim to (part?) copywrite of what we post there and I don't think it was made retro-active. But my permission at least is required for it to be re-used.
God, Creator of all that is,
You cannot be pinned down
Defined, caged in, summed up;
We might try,
in theology or religion,
To say 'God is x or y';
'He belongs to us';
But you ARE;
Beyond our exclusiveness,
Our cliques, our firm boundaries
Always leading us on,
Pillar of fire or cloud,
The wind blowing where it wills,
A butterfly calling us onwards,
Fluttering just out of our grasp.
And yet,
On the cross, you were pinned down
Or rather up.
Nailed there, left to die,
Dead and buried.
Out of sight.
Gone.
Or so we thought;
But, Unpinnabledown God,
You could not be contained
in that cage of death;
Burst from the tomb;
Rose Again!
I'm not quite sure of its copywrite position. I'm fairly sure it predates the ship's claim to (part?) copywrite of what we post there and I don't think it was made retro-active. But my permission at least is required for it to be re-used.