Choosing

Photo by Lee Lindsey McKinney

As soon as we are certain

that God has un-chosen those

of whom we are afraid and

about whom we know very little,

we can panic assured we have created

God to reflect our own image,

and not the other way around.

God in-the-flesh, whom we called Jesus,

spent little of his time creating

“insider” and “outsider” lists for us to check.

The chief complaint of his generation’s chiefs

was that he spent far too much energy

conflating with the unloved and the unlovely.

Holiness, at least as it is revealed incarnate,

is a great deal about choosing the unchosen, 
about erasing and expanding our circles.

© 2013 Todd Jenkins