A poem: A Church of Basic Sanity

I was interested to read in the New York Times today that church attendance is drastically on the rise in the USA after decades of decline.  Apparently secularism is out and God is back in.

Some prose on what a “Church of Basic Sanity” might look like today:

A “Church of Basic Sanity” rests on virtue.

Virtue is held as sacred. 

What is of ultimate sacredness (sometimes called God)  reveals innumerable faces and names. 

The faces and names may change, especially as we move closer. But does virtue change that much?

Sacred virtues lay beyond the days’ values of good and bad, right or wrong

Yet virtue is good and right!

Virtue is wholesomeness and includes the opposites.

 A spiritual life celebrates what is virtuous in us and heals & integrates what is not.

Any space or ritual called "sacred" produces something of virtue in our lives, not more opposites.

Sometimes this sacred space is just our own mind (and heart).

May we all find a Church of Basic Sanity inside and outside.