As Life Begins with a Cry

...but religion begins as life does, with a cry of hunger – and reason comes long after. ~ Bill Pittman and Dick B. Courage To Change (Kindle Locations 345-349)

Jesus told Nicodemus he had to be born again,
not to study the law and the prophets.
Knowledge gets us nowhere —
we have facts, statistics, experience,
reason, understanding of all the data
but cannot solve or even grasp how solving
would look. We can only find new life
like an infant, bursting into something big,
something bright, something beyond
and cry out with angst, with hope,
with hunger for the prize long-sought
and suddenly ours.