when we write who we think God is

January 12, 2008

(written on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 8 o’clock in the morning)

When we write
who we think God is,
let’s not dot all the i’s
and cross all the t’s
of our quick thinking
as if we had answers
to fill up a quiz.

Even great Doctor Thomas
heard the sacred
beating in a solitary human heart
more than in all his
medieval scaffolding of arguments.

Perhaps, like him
we’ll learn to see
with greatest certainty
that what we think we know
is likely wrong-headedness
we caught from someone else.

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