Prooftext me please.. (I beg to be loved)

I am a verse of holy writ
waiting to be planted in dirt and dung
growing where many do not dare
I take in the fumes and birth clean air.

I am not a round chambered
waiting in self-righteous anger
hoping to see where others fail
as the coming of my salvation
and their damnation to hell.


God doesn't like clean hands. If we are to change the world through the message of Christ we must become dirty.

To be against abortion is to adopt.

To be against sexual immorality is to hold the hands of those who have AIDS when they die.

To be against war is to love without question, without discrimination, without holding back.

To be against the tsunami of consumerism in our culture, is to take back our creative independence by doing things for ourselves. In our way.

We can is not good enough. We will is the fantasy of the lazy and procrastinator.

We are is the only way. Whether in grandiose public action or private decision, we are is the manifesto to which our generation must ascribe to. Otherwise we will become what we don't hope to be, we become what we think we can do, not what is impossible.

Men and women alike yearn for change, to be a part of a revolution. A revolution of ideas, against ideas, we long to have a reason to live. It used to be religion for me. Not anymore. God has a grander scheme than that. Humanity is God's creation and we are destroying it in the name of God. For many evangelicals it is abortion, homosexuality, and war. In some circles the first two have caused the third. They have points of goodness and sincere love, yet decided somewhere down the line that it is better to package it in hate.

It saves them the trouble of changing themselves.

Changing ourselves is the only way to embody the manifesto we are.

I leave you with this.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi