Thoughts and Prayers by Belinda Subraman

I want a church

….but not the established kind

where members brag about their guns,

see war as a game where “God” takes sides,

where ancient history is props for killing,

and congregations are one color.

I want one family under the sun

revolving on a rock together

in a spiraling galaxy of mystery and awe.

I want a Church of Earth, hugged in clouds

where respect belongs to positive energy,

never to the armed and threatening.

I want fear to dissipate and the hate it creates.

I want weapons to fly out of all hands

with magnetic, irresistible forces of love.

So I wish with all of my Being:

May relief in the knowledge of our connection

fill the gap where your “automatics” have been.

(Meet Mago Contributor) Belinda Subraman.