Your God is too small
my father taught me 
to see that danger 
in the faith of others
to be willing to rail
to speak out
to argue 
to demand
space to allow God
to be bigger 
when others made God
too small

but how often
do I forget
I also need a bigger God?

Written during Lectio Divina and inspired by a excerpt from The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus by Peter J. Gomes.