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The Goddesses speak…

Bring forth your wooden cross,

for it is my Sword.

                                                                        Bring forth your grail cup,

                                                                        for it is my Chalice.

                                                                                                                                                Bring forth your circle of thorns,

                                                                                                                                                for it is my Crown.

Bring forth your altar candles,

for they are my Light.

                                                                        Bring forth your communion dish,

                                                                        for it is my Platter.

                                                                                                                                                Bring forth your righteous scepter,

                                                                                                                                                for it is my Staff.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        And bring forth your Messiah,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        for he is mine, too.

He has and will come again,

as do you all.  But in the meantime

                                                                        you are searching for salvation

                                                                        in all the wrong places.

                                                                                                                                                Seek it not in us, pray not for

                                                                                                                                                divine aid to redeem you,

But instead look within yourself,

for that is where the true grace lies,

                                                                        in the ability to love your fellows,

                                                                        and treat all with compassion,

                                                                                                                                                in the vigor of spirit, the courage

                                                                                                                                                to have an unfaltering soul,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        and in the humble admission of

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        mortality, and the faith to be reborn.

So bring forth your holy relics,

for we see no disparity.

                                                                        More important than to whom you

                                                                        give your faith is the strength of

                                                                                                                                                the faith itself, the devotion and

                                                                                                                                                goodwill meant by it, so long as

you disparage not those who kneel

to symbols you do not see as your own.

                                                                        For true deliverance comes through

                                                                        love, not hate, through fellowship,

                                                                                                                                                not differences.  It is all one to us;

                                                                                                                                                why should it be not so with you?

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        For it is through that which you will find

                                                                                                                                                                                                                        the mark of the divine within yourself.