What does the Holy One require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?
—Micah 6.8
Go and learn what this means,
“I desire mercy, not sacrifice.”
—Matthew 9.13 (Hosea 6.6)
Love God and love your neighbor.
On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets.
Matthew 22.38-40
God does not care what you believe.
God cares how you treat people.
God does not want you to be religious.
God wants you to be loving.
All doctrine is baloney
that doesn’t lead us to love.
Take all your beliefs—the virgin birth,
Son of God, walking on water, power of prayer—
the works—and set to them on the anvil,
with the hammer and tongs of love.
What breaks is foolishness. Let it go.
What comes out whole will last forever,
be stronger than armies,
and make your life beautiful.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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