Our work is to put on the face of Spirit

By Joe Perez

It is understandable to think that getting called names or physically harmed or denied rights are the greatest threats gay people face. But there is a deeper truth: it is society’s ignorance of the gay face of God that we ought to fear most. Only when the world understands that gay people have equal dignity and value as images of the Divine — and gay Love as an image of the way that the Divine loves — that we will be free to be Who We Are: not merely individual selves in search of the freedom to control our love lives, but Unique Selves, each participating in the True Self of which there is only one. We are Unique Selves who are offering our Unique Gifts to the world, including our Gay Love. Truly, our work is to put on the face of Spirit.