Changing the World

If the world is built upon the foundation of Our Love

And the anchor points in that foundation

Is the relationship We have with everyman in everyway,

Then changing the world

Means changing relationships

(For Love, oh Love, can never change)

I used to relate to others

Through the paradigm of Christianity

Some were “in” and some were “out” based solely upon their theology

Instead of who I knew them to be as people,

And I gave my trust wholeheartedly to those who had the right theology

And denied it entirely from those who did not

And it’s completely terrifying to me

To know that my friends who I trusted so much in my Christianity

Will now do the same to me

Because I am “out” of their theology

I am not an atheist,

I have not abandoned YHWH and His Love and His Truth,

I have simply grown beyond the places where Christianity limited me,

But to do so I had to give up all of Christianity

And simply learn to be

I must,

I had to,

I know that to survive I must grow,

For growth is inherent in life,

And I have been so surrounded by death

That I could easily succumb to it

If I did not choose to grow,

If I did not choose life,

But now I’m terrified

For I have lost everything already

And yet now I must lose more,

For to change the world, I must change my relationships

And how I relate to everyman,

Not as a Christian,

But simply as a human

Who has remembered the divine

For I am one with everyman,

Whether they know it or not,

But in learning of this lack of separation,

Shall I separation cause

By repudiating the religion

That raised me in separation

And thus igniting the separation in the hearts of those

Who still subscribe to that religion

When I only want to be One?

But I must go on,

And so I take the step of faith to relate

That I am not a Christian

Because if all my worlds are going to die,

There must be resurrection,

And there is no room for Christian limitation

In my new life.