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Sinning Saints Once More

When I was in seminary
my spiritual director advised me to notice,
as had he,
that there are two kinds of:

Clergy

Those who understand their calling
as to coldly forgive
and heatedly challenge
all bedeviled sinners

And those who feel called to mentor
gods and goddesses
and all transgender images in-between
to warmly engage
and repeatedly comfort
all divinely endowed
panentheistic
Holy Spirited saints.

Lay Leaders

Those who live for a vacation
from telling Others why they must not do
whatever trauma-afflicted compulsion
we might feel addictively drawn toward

And those whose felt sacred vocation
is to communicate compassionately with Others
to therapeutically understand
what we would most love to be
and become
co-invested in ego-health
and ecosystemic-wealth
re-associatively together

Unconditionally regarding
both categories of Clergy
and Ego/EcoTherapeutic Lay Leaders
and All PolyCultural EarthTribal Creatures,
verbally dominant
and nonverbally
co-passionately prominent

Comforting the nonverbally afflicted
more than verbally afflicting
the too win/lose oppressed
survivalist
StraightWhiteCorporateMale
Business As Usual
RightWing Evangelical
anti-ecofeminist gospel truth
is Holy Spirit anathema
comfortable
with cognitive/affective chronic
bicameral dissonance.

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Powers Over Me

I once read,
If I am a parishioner,
(or a student
or a child
or some other non-elite identity)
Then someone has power over me.

It would have been more helpful
if this “someone”
had been named,
finger-pointed outed.

I am left wondering,
Who could this Someone be?

And, is this non-indigenous power
used to empower and disempower me?
And/Or, disempower and empower We?
And possibly some of both,
and all fractal four, above?
Or, with the And/Or,
is this actually another variation
on a perfect octave circling string?

This “someone”
could not mean clergy,
usually civil,
civic-minded
more than uncivil;

Called to suffering of servant facilitators,
moderators,
mediators of democratically inclusive theological reflection
on real world experience,
the scripture of ecological dynasties,

Natural relationships
learned as also,
at our best and most resilient,
theologically resonant health
and safe-valued wealth
of co-passions,
positive
equivalent to double-negatives,

Stories
and histories
and herstories
of double-binding bilateral ZeroZone Souls.

Two intersectional stories
for all relationships,
secular Yang
with sacred non-elite bilateral yin-squared power
climates inside/outside,

Fractals of positive empowerment
and negative disempowerment
forMe/ofWe

Within ecosystems ego-sufficient
and concomitantly co-arising
ego/eco-empowerment;
co-incidental transubstantiation

When Ego equals LeftYang hemispheric framing lenses
and Eco equals RightYin political GreenCommons network
of interdependence,
intersectionality,
sufficient left/right co-affirmation

Then, when reading,
If I am a parishioner,
(or a student
or a child
or some other non-elite identity)
Then someone
slightly less LeftBrain dominant
and more RightBrain affirming
empowers warmly with me.

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When God Deals Trump in Lemons

I think I recall
way back in balmier lemon-delivery days,
which already feel Golden Ruled
and Ratioed
and Elixired
by comparison,
when the Affordable Care Act
was referred to as the Democrat Agenda
for universal health care,
and Paris signatures
were discussed,
even polemically,
as the Democratic Global-Spreading Agenda
for climate health
as contrasted to the Republicans
for more aristocratic issues
of wealth containment
and top Wall Street Lobbyist 1% rapid expansion.

Then followed Trump the Top CEO Candidate,
then Trumpism,
more or less replacing Republicanism,
whose rhetoric became campaign prolific
personalized,
so Republican Agendas became
President Trump’s personal-corporate cancerous care
defined, but never contained, as whatever is oppositional
to ObamaCare.

Remarkable personal problem-solving charismatic skills
were promised;
remarkable for their consistent weakness
in practice.

New Republican self-definition
as whatever is not Democratic Health for All
has become camouflaged through personalization,
and therefore rhetorically de-politicized
and neutralized
regarding RealWorld economic outcomes
for the 90% and the 10%
becoming the 95% and the 5%
becoming the 99% and the 1%
Republican TrumpCare Advantage
v. that Bad Old BlackBiCameral ObamaCare
giving and receiving
climate health
rather than more TrumpTowering
business as Wharton UnReal Estates usual
Win to Lose ecopolitical assumptions
where WinWin
wears Original Constitutional colors,
broadening from Patriarchal White land-owner democratizing intent
toward matriarchal-patriarchal
white and whatever
land-owning and all other land and sea-residing
democratization of healthy wealth intent.

So,
if you are one of many Christian evangelicals
who thought TrumpTowering rhetoric
sounded more prim and proper
about keeping grabby hands to greedy self
than did the Hillary Democratic ProHealth version
of revisionism,
feeling some “we’re all sinner immigrant” remorse,
and if your Protestant or Catholic clergyman,
I might non-sicly guess,
encouraged you in this Post Republican
supremacist erection,
or elitist direction,
then please speak with them,
but kindly.

Encourage our fundamentalist clergy
to not act like Islamic fundamentalist clergy,
to instead ask themselves,
“What did Jesus do and say
about Publicans and Pharisees,
elitist greedy money-changers
grabbing ecopolitical valuables
on sacred soil?”
And love and health
for poverties of NatureSpirits
inheriting this health-wealth Earth,
instead of TrumpTowering AntiLife
for all who can’t grab fast and hard enough
to deforest our forests
inside and out,
to Win
over Loser Christian multi-counter-culturalists,
like Messiahs
thinking and acting
to grow cooperative healthy economies,
ProHealth for all us multiculturalists,
including immigrant waves
of Elder Patriarchs
spinning Creation Stories
as God might recreate His/Her ReGenerative Selves
like Golden Rules for LemonAid.

 

 

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