Which one of you, having a hundred sheep
and losing one of them,
does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness
and go after the one that is lost until they find it?
—Luke 15.4
None of us, of course.
We cut our losses and guard what we have.
But God, well, they have different math.
With God it’s all about the whole.
With God a hundred minus one is zero,
like a marriage minus one.
God doesn’t have a hundred.
God has ones. Many of them. They all count.
So of course God seeks the one.
There is no one God doesn’t seek.
The ninety-nine complain,
as if they’re somehow slighted.
Affirmative action, they say—
it’s reverse discrimination.
But ever since Eden there’s been
the One Law of God: that we all live together.
Until we’re all included
even God isn’t whole.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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