My minister’s certificate should arrive in the mail any day now from the Holy church of Get Off Your Ass and Do Something (HCGOYADS). So I think I’ll go ahead and give my first Sunday sermon.
Brothers and sisters, if God rains down love on us, does it just run off down the drain? If God is our friend, can we borrow a few dollars from him? If God is our father, can he make sure we get a education?
Of course, these ridiculous statements take notions of God literally, not metaphorically. Then how do we think about God? We must become agents of loving action. Our task is demonstrating what it means to be actively human.
Outrage while sitting on our asses. No. Just showing up. No. If we do what we must, we will make love a flood. We will offer friendship freely. We will father those who need our nurturing.
Protesters must not go home, but must go quietly but energetically into the places that need them.
Amen.
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