Sin of the Gaps

 

 

Around a flat earth the

edges of providence,

defining thoughts like dra-

gons on old maps.

 

Great scary monsters from

incomprehensible

depths, imitating the

sin of the gaps.

 

Good and benevolent concepts of God

leave a whole range of human experience

outside the places that we have allocated for God.

 

The God of the gaps is a God incarnate in

all the things we don’t understand.

 

The sin of the gaps, is sin made responsible for

all the things we can’t believe to be created by God.

 

A split universe of God’s good things,

and all the rest in a great void bereft of God, where sin holds sway.

 

Like the old flat earth idea,

where people knew their familiar flat earth,

and feared everything beyond

in the mysterious province of dragons and monsters.

 

Translated by the heart.