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The Actual Words of God

(don’t worry)

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God says

Stand up

God says

Up on one foot

(as you are able)

Now down

Uh-oh

You didn’t hear

God says

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Righteous

Confusion

To say we hear the right thing

All the time

From God

Whose big voice

In the sky

Has chapters for us

As a best-selling

Enterprise

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How do we know what God says

Well

We don’t

God might speak rather directly

To the mystics

Find a mystic

For the rest of us

We have a text

Then say hello

Then listen

And that ain’t all bad

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We won’t have anything

To sell

But the working out

Shall take a grownup lifetime

With the pleasure

Fully realized

In prayer

Without agenda

Or to find agenda

There

Rather than first

And then

Get the holy language

To agree

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The actual words of God

Don’t worry

We’ll say things

We’ll listen

We’ll have feelings

We’ll have instincts

Which shall be

Our life of faith

Credible

Without a claim

Or verbatim

But what should love

As we learn God

And live

Tell us

Anyway

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While if you’re Moses

Reading this

Or Deborah

Or Julian

I think you’ll understand

For the rest of us

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Be easy

I believe

You might say this

Too

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