a local creed

pretty complicated
but it isn’t

God creates
out of
love
so much so we say that God is love

everything was made and we
were made
well
and then we fell
and the closeness we might have with God
fell
too

and so we live
God with us and God loving us
even
perfectly

and maybe part of the mischief is that God is at reach
but not physically clearly in the room
because
the company of perfection
is
too much
and breeds contempt
through dissociation
and so
how to come to faith
that way

but through fallenness or devil’s guile or other reason
we are on our own to
come to God
to believe
for life

as we live
life now
and
for life
forever
about which we’ve been told
and yet so much more
if
to our skeptical rue for now
but
to discover then

so
how to believe

believe

free to us
cost having been paid
which
is
a story and it’s true

yet
from us
nothing more to exchange
but
faith
for God
to start

which to think on it
       maybe not think
       on
       it so
       well
is a great deal
of ours

to give
if
God to receive

in all this
also
we might have an answer to the question of
what matters
because by love as well as reason
of faith

what
matters
is all

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