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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Poet, Writer & History Teacher Jaspreet Kaur

Good morning.

Over the years, I’ve often used poetry as a way to explore and express my own spiritual journey. Talking about spirituality and God out loud always seemed seems hard to me, but I found find it easier to express it in an art form I knew know all too well.

Here’s my poem: Part-time God

Why is that I would find you tucked in between pages of holy books?
At the bottom of whisky bottles?
In a newborn’s eyes?
Underneath hospital pillows?
In all the places that we feel closer to you.

I'm sorry that I seem to have forgotten a lot of things between your visits.
I don't want to keep losing you so that I come running back to you to find you.
I know that you're always there,
And it's only when I realised that I shouldn't feel lonely when I'm home if I have you.
I have you.

Why is that we're only interested in a part-time God?
It's not that we mean to be selfish,
It's just that we are,
We speak your name when we're in need, not when we're freed.
Not when we have everything in the palm of the hands that you gave us.

It seems that we remember you in times of hate, we pick at your verses to back up our point.
Well, if you have hate in your heart, just say it, don't pray it, don't preach it and for the love of your part-time God, don't teach it.

I'm trying to get to the Kaur of how I can feel your presence all the time.
Burn worldly love,
Rub the ashes and make ink of it,
And write your name in my mind all the time,
not just when I need you…

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh (the traditional ending to a Sikh prayer)

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