Yes,

I guess….

From semin’ry

to heresy

in 53 years!

Perhaps,

an unusual evolution,

I confess.

But I’m not surprised

by the time it took.

I’d had such a long way to climb,

you see….

From such a firm, fundamental faith

in just a book,

from Genesis to Jesus to Paul as he took

up the slack in the unerring word of Divinity

while we waited for Will to be done,

facing, by Faith alone, all calamity,

(“Don’t worry, son. Everything’s justified

in the sweet by’n ‘by!)

All without taking a moment to think!

Just open your SINGING YOUTH SONG BOOK

to number 81,

“Redeemed how I love to proclaim it…!

His child and forever I am!”

A savior, some gods only son.

The battle already won

from that “Rock on which I stand,

all other ground is sinking sand…”

etc, etc…

to a gasping hope in a question mark!

And in the end,

if all of it was, possibly,

merely a lark,

no one will ever know….!

So,

Yes.

I guess I’ve become a heretic.

Thank-you

for the compliment.