GRAMMAR TO WIN A WAR

Let’s solve the problem of race wars

With a grammar rule.

Now come with me for a moment;

We’re going back to school.

A noun can only be a thing,

A person, or a place;

An adjective that walks with it

Will give the noun its face.

The adjective rules o’er it mate

And identity,

So I put limits on myself

By describing me.

If I say “white” to modify

The Christian as the noun,

I limit and define my God

By some earthly crown.

But I—by the blood He shed for us—

Am my Father’s own.

Thus I put the Christian first

And followed by skin tone.

Let Christian be the adjective

Defining any race,

We would see a new world peace

Sans bigotry’s disgrace.

And think, ye friends of many colors,

We all are equal souls,

And all lives matter in a time

When God holds all controls.

We’ll be the nouns of every color

With a Christian adjective

That well defines and shapes us all

In Grace that’s His to give.

                        --Monty Wheeler

*This piece comes as inspiration from a pastor in Texas and his sermon I happened to hear on the radio while driving. I missed his name and I out-distanced the signal before the end of the sermon but I love his message in its pure simplicity.  I can only hope I got it right.*