Misperception

Perhaps the greatest failure

of organized religion is its desire

to compete, conquer, and erase.

Jesus tried to lift his own

people's faith beyond the limits

for which they had settled.

By and large, this offer was refused.

Too much of Christianity – 

structural outcome of this rejection –

has taken more of a cue

from other institutions

and less from the messiah.  

We fall into the oxymoronic pit

of ego, convinced that grace

is both "all that" and yet a prize

that has been conferred because we,

above all others, earned and deserve it.

The ark sails without us, again.

      

© 2015 Todd Jenkins