Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s
and to God what is God’s.
—Matthew 22.21
There is so much more to give to God
than to Caesar. So much more.
Not only Caesar, but Caesar’s world—
that throne and all its scaffolding,
its pomp, its might, its falsehood,
its marketplace, its language,
its map of the universe.
What I am tempted to misgive to Caesar,
to entrust to that greedy world,
I offer instead to God alone.
The power to tell me what I see.
Trust in the truth, and clarity of What Is.
The power to tell me who I am,
what I am worth.
What anything is worth.
The power to make me whole.
The power to guide my thought,
to lead my heart.
My pledge of allegiance, my loyalty.
Myself, an image of God,
love’s likeness stamped on me,
my whole, my all, my holy.
I give myself to you, my God,
to whom I already belong.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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