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Finding God...

Finding God...

In disguise to unwelcoming eyes..?

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Older balding grey haired man in a greenish-grey Banlon shirt with a smile of delight on his face.  A man in his teens or twenties wearing a maroon ball cap and maroon t-shirt is facing the older man.  The young man is standing so close to the older man that the brim of his ball cap is about 3 inches from the older man’s nose.  The young man, who has Down Syndrome, has both of his hands up near his reddish brown goatee. His eyes are squinted in delight and his mouth is slightly open, showing a bit of his tongue coming out from under his front teeth.
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Facing God

Against your neighbor

with this or that axe to grind 

to God’s image 

you are blind.

Looming larger every day

fear puts us all in harms way.

For if we live our lives in fear

that’s what will be always most near.

When fear-mongering makes 

less of those God made as 

our sisters and brothers

Casting them as dangerous, 

treating the…

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