10 Haikus For Faith Deconstruction
Poetry for the wilderness
This week we were in the wilderness—we road tripped northward to Montana’s mountainous Big Sky, Yellowstone’s boiling geysers, and the clear lakes of Wyoming’s Grand Tetons. I’m almost done writing a totally different article on this wilderness experience, but in the meantime I wanted to leave you with a short set of poetry expressing a window into my own faith deconstruction and reconstruction in spiritual wildernesses throughout the years.
I invite you to choose one of these to ponder more deeply. Better yet, write a haiku of your own! If you are unfamiliar with haiku’s, they are poetry written in sets of 5-7-5 syllables. Be sure to share which one resonates with you or your own in the comments at the bottom!
Haiku’s for Faith Deconstruction:
1.
Sin: the way of me
Wickedness to condemn or
A scared child to love?
2.
Does Father God want
Faith in goodness and love or
Blind obedience?
3.
Redefine sin as
Brokenness to be restored
Not embodied vile
4.
Here I'm thankful for:
The breeze, time alone, your presence
In the wilderness
5.
My heart is made good!
Not "deceitful above all..."
The cure was the point!
6.
Loving God means
Returning affection while
Cradled in his care
7.
Religion or love?
One demands and sucks all life
One pours, forming whole
8.
There's no entry bar
Jesus' way is welcoming
Possible to all
9.
Take a worldview and
Re-meet it as a person:
Faith reconstruction
10.
There's no striving here
You're now enough and worthy
Belonging, you're home.
Your haikus spoke to me
Bringing clarity to me
The clearness of God