Unlimited

Sometimes, God, I just wonder why.
Why create families?
Why form communities -
When we lead each other so far astray?
And why do we always look to our own needs?
Will that ever change?
Will it ever be that your body, your people
Become more important to us -
Than we, ourselves, as individuals?
And we, having needs,
How do we get past them – past ourselves -
To where life is no longer about us,
But about you?

And within your body we judge.
As if it were second nature only to breathing,
We judge -
Attitudes, actions, responses.
We read so much into
Body language, fake smiles or quick glances.
And we think we know
The whole story.
We put people in a box, even as
We put you in a box.

Maybe that’s where all this comes from.
Maybe it’s really you we are limiting, and therefore limiting
Your people.
And by limiting you and all that is beyond our control,
We begin to gain control -
Of something never meant to be controlled
By man.
You do give us what we seek.

If we could only understand
That when we limit you,
And your body here on earth -
These people who have become our family,
We also limit ourselves and who we would ever
Hope to become.
We are limited by our judgments and our own expectations,
Our own fears, our own ideas, and the parameters
Of our small thinking minds.

God, grow within us the desire for more.
Create in our hearts the restlessness
That pushes us to seek and search,
To question and reach.
And open our eyes,
God, help us to see beyond our boxes
And to accept the truth –
To accept the mystery of
The unlimited you.