The Naming of Parts

Being told we are made in

the image of God, we imagine:

the foot that walks beside,

the hand that reaches out,

the fingers and the touch

and the change of place,

the grace of one descending,

the image of a man,

the form of one who sits upon a throne

with a face that shines upon us

and words to gather round,

with flesh and blood and

a body to embrace.

It is this God that we imagine,

this God we wear around our necks,

that leads to arguments and war,

but I will believe there is a better God than

this God of blind design, a greater God

than mortals can conceive.