“Born again”
Said so tritely
Religious jargon
What do we mean by it?
What did he mean?
Does our theology
of “praying the prayer”
affect our idea
of rebirth
rather than the other way around?
Perhaps
being “born again”
is more like
birth
than our simple
feel-good religiousness
is comfortable with.
Messy
Painful
A time-consuming process
Hard
Life-altering
Beautiful
Why do we reduce it
to a tidy sinner’s prayer?
mental assent to an ideology?
When a child is born
their life changes forever.
Their world expands.
New adventures and experiences become possible
in a world of deep suffering
and even deeper love.
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