Impossible Paradoxical Infinite

The Long Version

The condensed version of this piece was posted in instagram as part of my Every Day in May series. This long version is one of the extra treats for paid subscribers this month.

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Impossible Paradoxical Infinite - The Long Version

For several months now, my algorithm has been serving ecumenical with a heavy hand. This means on Sundays and Mondays, in between the memes about perimenopause, art and artists, feminism, herbalism, fart jokes, witches, and tiny cute animals eating snacks, I get handfuls of 2-3 minute sermons all on the same Bible passage. Having grown up hearing no fewer than 3 sermons per week for at least the first 20 years of my life, it’s rare that anyone has a take on a passage that I can’t see coming a mile away. The variables can sometimes be surprising, but no matter how they start they will always end up in one of two places. They will either tell you about the limits, or they will tell you about the love.

Now, they all think they’re telling you about the love, especially the ones preaching limits. It’s for our own good that there are rules and commandments that we must live by. There have to be conditions otherwise how could we, let alone God, separate the Christians from everyone else. A lot of them do this so gently it can be an easy to miss. No fire and brimstone, no big guilt trip, just a plain and straightforward reinforcement of what we’re all afraid of in the first place - being left out of something eternally cosmically great.