Please select one of the following:
A. God is a velvet fist
wrapped around a glove of iron
firm, correcting, compelling.
B. God is the inverse, all iron outside,
insides receptive and comforting
hammering our hard edges,
then holding our hands.
C. God is all velvet,
endless embrace and acceptance
D. God is iron to the core,
an unrelenting love
more fierce than death.
E. God is all of the above,
impossible without contradiction,
yet somehow so.
F. None and nothing of the above,
utter patience of emptiness,
to which we pray
for the God we need
to save us from the one we fear.