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 I find the way the term God is being tossed around these days…

to be a disgrace, and embarrassment…a shame…

as horrible acts are being committed…perpetrated in God’s name.

Since I find many religions to be restricted by their ideology.

every now an then I like to take a moment…

and reevaluate what my spiritual God means to me….

My God lives within my heart…he helps to calm my soul

He offers me guidance on my journey…but allows me to take control.

She has given me the ability to decide what is right…and what is wrong.

She knows I’ll make mistakes and she knows the journey’s long.

He believes in love…he quietly lights my way.

He doesn’t care if a person is straight, transgender, bi, or lesbian or gay.

She doesn’t care if I am young or old…or overweight or thin.

She does not discriminate by the color of one’s skin.

He sees men and women as equals…strangers…as sisters and brothers

He urges me never to put one person in this world above another.

She believes in acceptance, hope and generosity…

She teaches these are the principles on which to live

that it’s not how much we take from life…but how much we give.

But nothing in this world will bring a broader smile to his face…

than knowing through kindness and love I’ve done my best

to make this world a better place.

She is filled with sorrow…her soul is filled with shame

when she sees people abusing others and hating in her name. 

I’m sure my Gods has other lessons to teach regarding my faith and my belief…

but I promised them when I sat down…that I would make this brief.

I think the last thing they would wish for…is that wars in their name cease…

and through love and kindness instead of holy wars…we strive for holy peace.

If I can act with kindness and love…and do my best to treat everyone the same

then I’ve been told by my Gods…I can do so in their name.

I think about my past.

Life,  mistakes. 

 I wish that my mom could see me.

I think about the legacy, giving life to God at a young age and falling away.

I do my best nowadays to live a Godly life.

I raise my daughter in the way and will of God.

I struggle but I know God has us.

I live my life to be a good daughter to God.

 Not what people think. 

I have made lots of mistakes.

I have been delivered from so much.

From addiction and sexual immorality.

I am doing my best to get to the end of my life 

And hear well done thy good and faithful servant.

When I look around the world today…

at all the adversities, all the hardships and injustices

and find myself asking why…

I’m grateful I remember a question that was asked of God

and at her unexpected reply:

They asked their God:

“Why is there poverty, famine and injustice in the world?

Then pleaded…”Please, God, what are you going to do?”

“For as long as I can remember”, their God answered,

“Those are the same questions I’ve been asking you.”

I grew up in the Catholic faith…

We were taught for piety, kindness, compassion and love to search

but for reasons that remain my own..I lost my faith in the Catholic Church.

I still pray to a God however…

usually when I walk in nature…among the animals and the trees.

When I take in the aroma of a field of flowers..or feel the salty ocean breeze.

When I walk on a mountain high….or through a valley low. 

When I sit beside a river and watch her waters flow.

On a walk in nature is where I can feel…where I can see

the world that God created…the world she intended it to be.

I say she but that’s only to attach a label to a celestial entity

for the God I pray to is every gender and every color in the world…

a point not lost on me.

Many is the day…as I watch people treating one another so horribly

that I will walk in nature…and stop…to ask this entity…

Why would you…the God who created all the beauty that I see…

who created all this variety of life…this wonderful diversity

want to exclude anyone who looks or acts a little differently than me?

These all encompassing Gods (again for lack of a better name)

whenever I ask this question… their answer is the same.

“Excluding anyone whose different,” they say…”is something we’d never do!

No God, no entity worth their weight, would ever do that…

and neither should any of you.

Which always brings me to the same conclusion

which makes every God I pray to nod…

some people are looking to the wrong entity for guidance…

and worshiping the wrong God.