Also, I wrote a poem today during one of my breaks at work. As I said in my last post about poetry, I'm going to try to rhyme more. Here it is; I call it "individuality".
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I was original
Focused on physical
Things inconsequential
Caring only for self
Born a slave to my wealth
Feared death more than all else
Now I'm an imitator
Of God the mediator
Father, Spirit, Son the King
Sharing peace with my neighbor
With the weapons of our strife
Words of God that breath new life
Soul from spirit severing
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Spoilers: my intention for this poem was to touch on the idea that God and God's goodness was in existence infinitely prior to our rebellion. There are endless ways to deny God, but there is only one ("straight and narrow") truth. The most novel thing in existence is evil, futilely challenging God The Unchallengeable. Pride arrogated, honestly unimaginable but behold it exists everywhere. We, sheep of God, follow our master "blindly" because we see the unseen, and recognize that nothing we do is done by our own power, but is the gift of God to sanctify us for His glory. To do God's well-established good is not less than to be unique, but rather it is to encroach on an infinite boundary of eternal creativity. To find our truest self expression as God's works of art, each unique, is to recognize ourselves as such and limit ourselves to the endless depths of God's goodness, finding God's glory in our art. There is only one truth and there are so many lies, but the truth itself contains an infinite amount of information -- an infinite universe which can be continually divided into smaller parts until we are incapable of detecting or quantifying their substance -- and that's just the physical world; there is also an endless adventure comprised of metaphysical realities all around us: of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self control I'm an imitator; a poser. I'm a sheeple; completely obsessed with just one thing. I'm a entirely described by the word "follower", but the thing that I follow is so big, so much better, so much more intricate and awesome than all other things, that it encompasses all of us whether we acknowledge it or not, and brings about our self-realization, sustaining our individuality in a way more full than our novel lies. I'm a follower of God, the Truth Almighty.
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