the inside work that is our own

so God
and shall we believe
and
we don’t have to
that’s the reality
of
will
which we know from looking back
at choices we have made
all our own
as well as
looking in the now when we decide
what’s
coming now and most likely
into next

and this is different
from God-sense
in
things
we know but do not know
from what there is and what could be

I mean
we dream
we intuit
we use all sorts of abstract notions
from
abilities that don’t require muscle
but synapse

and yet we think God
too far from us
for
being not material
except for sometimes roses
in the faithful’s
coat

which becomes a story of
someone else’s meaning
which
we might
take to hear or
not

that’s up to us

as what the most important is
ideas
wishes
wills
not of the wisp but
of our souls
the more important unmaterial
part

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