The Left Column
The allegory
of Bible verse
belies truths
otherwise
inexpresible with words.
Accept that most of what
is handded down from the Bible is
actually very very helpful for you.

Some people have issues with various
aspects of ancient scriptures and so
they toss the whole book aside.  The Book
gets tossed aside and the person's life
starts to slide off into various future.
I say 'various future' because I seek to 
not judge (though I do it just by breathing
in some sense).

 Some people have issues with the idea
that it is 'just' the bible, or 'just'
the Koran, or what other book it is that
their religion holds as a vessal of that
great big unspoken thing.  I don't imagine
at any eccumenical soul would ever say that
it is just one book.  There could be a sea
of ink (this is not my allegory) and there
would never be enough ink, even if all of the
oceans were ink, to pen the many books that
would sing the praises of the highest of holies.

But what do I know of this?  That truth
is not in exclusivity.  So in any case,
me, a grand sinner, asking you to go back
to your church (don't have to come to mine),
or whatever temple or other place of worship
(even a Druid circle) if you have left
a place where people love you in a way that
is most kind (like from a church or a temple
or where ever you have felt the love before)
you can go back.  You can reunite with your
congregation.  Don't be afraid to expect that
people will forgive you.  An ocean of tears
could not either be cried to forgive all the
sins of this life if there were not the grace
of The Lord letting the forgiveness happen. 
And though forgiveness frees us from the
problems of sin, it also allows for healing
so that people who sin can learn a better way.

  And if someone has done you wrong and you
are not yet ready to forgive, maybe it is because
that you don't sense that the person is repentant?
You can forgive someone and that doesn't mean
that you have to put up with their bad behavior 
anymore.  So anyone who was harmed at their
place of worship, I can understand how you would
want to stay away from there.  But that was a
bad person doing bad things.  If they are still
there theen, of course you don't go back.  If
they are false prophets, retro-grade preists,
religious charletons, then, of course you don't
have to go back there.  But don't give up on the
church, or the congregation, or who ever else was
there.

 blah blah blah.

  All of you who are ready, you can go back to
your congreation or some other one. 



   If you see the light, feel
the light from the Church that
you used to go to
  Why not go back?

  Or if you think that the 
light is out
   then you come back and 
  you help light it.

  Help to light that light
  why fight?

   of if you were hurt
  we were hurt too
    we didn't understand
  what you were upset about.
   We're sinners too.
  That's why we are here.

  When we are apart
   it is like someone has
            taken apart a 
                 bicycle.
  It's not broken.
    But it doesn't function.
   
  We need all the parts of the bike
     to ride it safely.

   So go back and light the light.
  And forgive us the things
       we didn't get right.

  And if some creep did something bad to you
    he hurt us by hurting you
  like sticking a board in the spokes.

  Ring the little silver bell.
   Ride by in the full light.
    light the light.
  We need all the parts to the bike.

  Go back to your church
     and fix the bike of your life
 and ride off into the dusk
     and into the night
    in which you will eventually
   see
    a very bright light.

  Little child comes to hug
     your legs in dream.
  You're not afraid
     of what to do
    you have to do what is right.
   Light the light.
  Go back to your church
    and make it right.

   Guy goes off and makes racey movies.
    but he loves Christmas the best.
   So he goes off home to his New England place
    to return to the nest.

  Precher doesn't know that things are not right.
   Strong handsome man in the shade and the light.
  It all feels right.
    He sings the hymns.
  He praises the Lord.
   He is just as holy
      as you are as is everyone else.

  Make it right.
   Go light the light.



Entrance to the
Sturbridge Town Hall, Dec 2006
Philadelphia Tree