Lend me your ear

Do you want to pilgrimage to a holy destination
Or make your life a holy journey?
Utter a daily, repetitive monologue to God
Or have a heartfelt conversation?
Confine God to latitude and longitude
Or seek God beyond worldly jurisdiction?
Pick a God from your nation
Perhaps within a convenient radius from home ?
Or seek the true and living God
not confined to steeple or dome?

Do you want to carry God everywhere
Or let him hold you in His Hand?
Keep holy images clean
Or let God wash your heart?

Do you want to adorn yourself and home
with holy representation?
Or invite God to dwell in your heart
And be cognizant of His presence in every situation?

Are you satisfied with your religious activity
And think that you are basically good?
Could you stand it if God inspected you really
And looked under the hood?
What if ALL your thoughts were projected in a cinema hall
Would you still say you are basically good?
You're smart - make the call.

Do you want to settle for holy imagination
Or seek after the true revelation?
Do you prefer God packaged in a religion
Or would you like to be with God in a true relation?

Hey, I'm not trying to mock you
I am certainly not wiser or "holier than thou"!
These questions lead me to an honest introspection
To seek GOD without external decoration.
To be free of the shackles that bind,
To be free of the lies that destroy.
I hope you will pause to think and make a wise decision.