Weekly Poetry Challenge four

week 10 my faith journey

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week 10 my faith journey

I have had a long spiritual journal
Since I was born 68 years ago
In Berkeley, California.

My father was an athiest.
My mother was a lapsed Baptist.
kicked out of Church for asking,

"If God created the universe
who created God?"

too much free-thinking
for a small town
Arkansas Baptist minister
to comprehend.

And they did not agree
On God and religion.

Told us to find our own way
But always do the right thing.

I tried to follow
the basic teachings
Of all the great religions.

I read the Bible.
The Buddhist scriptures.
The Book of Mormon.

the Hindu Scriptures
The Tao writings.
the sayngs of Confucius
And the Koran.

And for a while
Considered myself
Catholic.

But quit going to mass
As it just did not feel right.

But one day I
had a revelation
I realized that
the whole universe
Was alive.

And I was part of that universe
And I was no longer an athiest
But on the other had
I was never a Christian.

And probably won’t be
For I just can’t believe
In all the Christian mythology.

And so became at last
Sort of a Buddhist.

But to each their own
And in the end
We will all
Find our own way.

It is as they say
in the end
it is all good.



getting caught up after being sick for a weeks.