My Husband Believes in God

My husband believes in God
He believes so strongly
He leads others
With his conviction

My husband believes in Jesus
He believes he is the savior
He believes we will be saved
He believes in Heaven
He believes in God

He believes in God
As a judge
As an observer
As an all-powerful deity
As the Creator of All

My husband believes in God

Would you like to know
What else he believes in?

He believes a slap across the fact
Is worth more than a conversation

He believes in switches
And tree limbs

He doesn't believe in hugging children
He thinks it makes them soft

He believes that he can take any verse in the Bible
And bend it
Like he bends that tree limb
And use it to suit his own needs
Much like that tree limb

He doesn't believe in laughter
Unless it's at another's expense

He doesn't believe in pleasurable sex
But he does believe in filthy sin
And he believes the two are the same
Despite his belief
That God gave us our bodies

He doesn't believe in family vacations
He doesn't believe in frank language
He doesn't believe in fidelity

Would you like to hear a joke?

He doesn't believe in fidelity
But he doesn't believe in divorce

Isn't that funny?

My husband believes in God
But he doesn't believe God sees anything he does
And is displeased

And even if he did believe that
Lucky for him
He believes in forgiveness

And when forgiveness doesn't work
He believes in self-hatred

And when he can't muster up hatred for himself
A problem handsome men often have
He just hates everybody else
Mostly the children and myself

That's what my husband believes in
And God

He believes in God

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Now

Would you like to hear
What I believe in?

I believe in bullets
I believe in guns
I believe in fake I.D.'s
I believe in shelters
I believe in my brother in Seattle
I believe in my children's resilience

And I believe in forgiveness
And I believe in God

Just like my husband

I just happen to believe
That one of us
Is going to be standing before him
A lot sooner than the other