a poem by Susan Arcady Barich 2009
What if God does not know.
What if God is still learning.
What if each of us is a shard,
a little piece of God,
figuring out what is
to be.
What if I am God experiencing what it means to be
Me,
And you are God experiencing what it is to be
You.
And God learns
through each of our pains and loves and joys and losses.
Do you understand then
how beautiful your pain becomes?
How valuable all your mistakes are?
How sacred all your missteps?
Your selfishness,
your fears,
your love,
your desperate, heroic acts,
reaching out
through fear
to love?
You are God’s
teacher.
Be courageous.
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