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Shaping the Word of God
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You know,
It didn’t come with numbers
Chapters and verses
I guess the whole thing was recited
As a book, we say
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Then we moved on to another
The community
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The interpreting community
Setting doctrine
As a group,
A denomination
Or on our own
Without a magisterium
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Tricky doctrine-setters
How do they avoid a lie
In designation?
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Maybe with the humility
Of Pietists
Or the Amish who
Set salvation as
A conditional process
We hope we’re saved
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Meanwhile, we have
A book of books
Providing order,
Which is fine
Except when God is wild
In the wilderness,
Awaiting Moses
Beside the symbol and reality
(one comes first)
Of the burning tree
That will not consume
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Remove your shoes,
Moses,
This is not a nine to five
This is a place above the desert
Thin blue air
For food
And doctrine from a flame
And from the words
One hears
Through the host
That is speaking
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And if the order is to play,
Then be grateful
For bare feet
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And we believe?
Our committees
And our meetings
All things gilt or burnished
For the Sunday best
To be best?
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Might we go to Sinai
In a Thoreauvian way
Take all the time we need
Outside of shoes
To think it through
The bush will burn
There’s time
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If need be,
Chronos will slip into kairos
For a while
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Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash
Saint Catherine Monastery, Mount Sinai, Egypt
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