"it's a god thing!"

“it’s a god thing!”

I just spent three beautiful days 
with four beautiful friends

two I knew, two I’d just met 
and we shared a common bond

(we’d each gotten out of the 
cult of evangelical christianity) 

so many weird, wild, magical 
things happened in 72 hours 

and we tried so hard to find 
an adequate substitute for the 

ol’ christian platitude we’d all 
come to loathe but we failed

so we just reclaimed the original 
words and made them our own 

and instead of saying them 
reverently, we yelled them and

then died laughing of happiness

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Shout-out to Corrie, Danielle, Nicki, and Ruth! Richmond on 12! (The 5 of us were in Denver, CO with a whole bunch more wonderful women.)

p.s. There’s actually a poem in my book, unbelieve, with an almost identical title:

"a God thing"

not only did my faith shift but my
language shifted right along with it

I stopped using hundreds of canned
phrases and added a few choice words

many of them with four letters and yes
the words from the can still trigger me

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If you too left evangelicalism, what christianese jargon makes you cringe?