You Cannot Be What God Is Not

If you thought Thomas Aquinas was some dusty old theologian think again! In Love Poems from God Daniel Ladinsky has a wonderful way of selecting passages from many "Sacred voices from East and West" and translating or presenting them in bite sized pieces. Here's one from the aforementioned Thomas Aquinas:

You Cannot Be What God Is Not

All are having a relationship with God.

A pear taken from a limb and

set in a bowl,

surely it is talking to its Lord,

and happy that it is being honored for its life,

and somehow knowing

that soon it will be

returning to

Him.

We use words like "returning".

Think about that. Inherent in that word is

separation,

and separation from God is never

really possible.

What can you be that He is not? "You

cannot be what I am not,"

my Lord once said to me.