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Imagine if we imagined God
In the image of a woman
Instead of an angry man
Demanding vengeance and allegiance and strength.
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Suzanne, as in my response to your Poem of the Day, in this one I wonder about your understanding of a word. This time it’s imagine. Imagine like invent? Or what we allow to fill our inner screen? Or what we hold there? What we choose to dwell on certainly shapes us as you assert here. On divinity, Jesus says the divine is spirit. Being personal as well as infinite, we want to use a personal pronoun. But we should remember, yes? , that whichever one we use, it’s metaphor. -Glen
Glen, having to keep this under 300 characters, I will simply say that I am not claiming to understand the Divine. But as a poet, I am interested in the storyteller's ability to shape our understanding of the world and the way this affects the actions we take.
If we wont be imagining like this we will not be able to enjoy life, love or respect that is the cause of fear, will never be enjoyable.
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7/21/2025 1:40:51 AM # 1.0.0
Hey, Suzanne! Got on the exercycle and have been roaming, this time, through your recent postings and came on this one again. Yes, may we imagine or embrace what tradtions have passed down to us. In the biblical we are told God made humankind in the image of God—male and female God created them—only with both is the image complete. With you imagining, holding, a truer picture, Glen
I wrote this as I was reading Paradise Lost, which like Dante's Inferno, has become part of Christian mythology. Just like most people don't know that all the visions of that have been painted on church walls don't come from the Bible but from a poem. Most people get their idea of Lucifer, the fallen angel, from Milton, and I did not like the way Milton portrayed Jesus Christ as a warrior leading his father's army against his father's rebellious creations (the angels) .