Missing The Woods

For the many leaves we have missed the woods. So many religions and so many ways. Some ways are through penance and
self-loathing. What truth can a bed of nails express? Isn’t it a reminder to the fact one has a body that can feel the pain? Such a truth cannot find the joys of a life firmly fixed on Truth. Jesus could on the strength of it break Sabbath if there were reasons for doing so. (St. Lk: 14:1-6)
God for some seems most peculiar. They need to secure the holiness by their own brute majority in numbers. Any perceived insult to His Glorious name in their misguided notions, so they think, they must avenge by bloodshed. Cannot their God avenge such insults by Himself?
Religion for many has ceased to be significant: Of what worth their religion is if their God has to be invoked for sparing their investments or wealth from ruin? In their calculations God can be broken down in dollars and cents.
Show me a religion that can stand by itself. It has Truth in such measure that accepts all life forms equally where lamb may dwell safely by the lion and a babe may play on the hole of the asp (Isaiah11: 6-9). Mark of Truth is peace and joy of an overflowing kind. It connects with everything else and grows more abundantly unto something good for all concerned. The kid shall replenish a leopard and a wolf shall not lead the lamb astray.
Love, can it stand itself? No! It connects every time. So would our love for God. Only we express in our patience, kindness, peace with others. Since we know Truth in patches it is our safest bet.
benny