My First Love (The Sonnet) | Divane Dynamite

Doing God’s work and doing God’s propaganda are two different things. And the world has enough propaganda as it is – what the world needs is God’s work – what this world needs is service – service not to the idea of God, but to the helpless and destitute – service to those who have nowhere to turn to. This, my friend, is called practical divinity.

“My First Love (The Sonnet)

My first love was not science,
My first love was theology.
Then what got me hooked on science,
Was the spark of electronic circuitry.

Eventually through happy and sad accidents,
Everything fell into its proper place.
Science, theology, and much more
got mixed up, and I ended up pioneering
the empire of humanitarian science.

I am a better scientist because of theology,
I am a better theologian because of science.
Hand in hand they found fulfillment,
When with poetry I built a heartfelt alliance.

I have no gift, it’s just that, expansion is my lifeblood.
In a world run by narrowness, the smallest act
of expansion seems like an act of God.”