Their Different God

Their God was different. He gave as well as took. It was sharing, not a one way traffic. Other gods demanded. They thundered and threatened. They required statues with angry faces and bodied modeled on our own. But their God cared. He loved them and they shared in a specialness the sharing created. He had no need of sacrifice. It added nothing to him, and he had meaning apart from their response. He needed no cajoling, no groveling. He hadn't to threaten and so they could learn he was real.