For Rowdy Christians Everywhere

by Dave Schultz

Creed

  I CHOOSE TO travel with God once again;

  Recover myself a seeker of truth;

  Return to a culture of dreams and rainbows;

  Walk into strange realms of new love;

  Feel all about me excitement and light;

  See in the mirror Christ-beautiful eyes.

  I RESOLVE TO meet each day with new eyes;

  Learn to see the good in all things again;

  Have courage in darkness and strive for light;

  Defend till death the sacredness of truth;

  Sing with the sparrows and smile at rainbows;

  And dutifully keep my heart filled with love.

  MY UTMOST GOAL IS TO grow in God’s love;

  Have diamonds shining out of dark eyes;

  Lend my limbs the fluidness of rainbows;

  Bounce through life with that smile alive again;

  Share with strangers the freedom found in truth;

  Live together in harmony and light.

  I PLEDGE MY LIFE TO the good of no light

  cause, but to the saving power of love;

  Guardianship of revealed and reasoned truth;

  Protection of the hope in children’s eyes;

  The quest to make myself a saint again;

  Remembrance of mercy-shining rainbows.

  I BELIEVE IN children and in rainbows;

  Dog-bark loyalty and warm summer light;

  The power to become our better selves again;

  The Divine source of even human love;

  The holiness that hides itself in eyes;

  The ‘never will you break me’ voice of truth.

  I EXPECT my vision to become truth:

  I will see more shooting stars and rainbows;

  Having finally opened my hungry eyes,

  They will be filled with invisible light

  From a world made of promises and love;

  And I shall follow God Himself again.

  With fearless faith and rainbows in my eyes,

  I choose again to be a child of light.

  The only truth I need, I find in love.