Church questions

After John 17: 20-23

What is more beautiful:

the stained glass

or the light

that shines through it?

What is more important:

the stained glass

or the light

that filters through it?

Can we see the light

without the stained glass,

or can we understand the glass

without the light?

Are we the stained glass

that filters the light, that

allows the beauty of the light

to be seen, to be known?

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Oneness

After John 17:20-23

They will know who

we are, by our love;

we know and understand

that, we have for a long time. 

But there’s more: 

they will know where

we come from, by our oneness,

our unity, our wholeness. 

Because that oneness stands as 

the signpost, they reach past

to the one who erected

the sign. They do know who

we are by our love, and 

they know where we come from

by our oneness.

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