Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, September 27, 2015
THE DIFFERENCE IS YOU
YOU ARE THE DIFFERENCE
Doubt differs from unbelief or disbelief.
Doubt demands demonstration,
Doubt craves confirmation,
Doubts pleads for proof as relief.
Doubt devolves into unbelief or disbelief:
If Demonstration lags.
If Confirmation creeps.
Then, Doubt stiffens, hardens, calcifies.
Condemnation is not demonstration.
Vilification is not confirmation,
Social isolation is not relief.
Believers bear the burden of proof.
Jesus proved, but rarely reproved.
Believers reprove, but rarely prove.
Doubters are eggs in an open nest.
Needing warmth, love, tenderness.
Where Eggs are open to prey and to rot;
Believers are all Doubters' Lancelot.
As a bird attends its unborn brood
Believers must mimic their attitude.
The message of Jesus' life is true
It rests in no book nor in any creed;
The difference between these two,
between doubt and belief is in you.