The easier dichotomies

Which is easier, to say “Your sins are forgiven you,” or to say, “Rise up and walk”?

Which is easier, to say “Peace be unto you,” or to say, “And with your spirit”?

Which is easier, to say “Forgive us our trespasses,” or to say, “As we forgive those who trespass against us”?

Which is easier, to forgive or to forget? Are you sure?

Which is easier, to enter the Temple, or to emerge back into the world?

Which is easier, to ask or to thank? To knock or to enter? To seek or to find?

Which is easier, to run from the Fish like a coward, or to run toward the Father like a fool?

Which is easier, to receive Communion, to give Communion, or to be in Communion?

Which is easier, to hold all things together, or to walk on water?

Which is easier, to say “Let there be light,” or to say, “Let him who is thirsty come”?

Which is easier, to make a man fearfully and wonderfully, or to bring that good work to completion?

Which is easier, to hear the heathen rage about god, supergod and superduper god and hope for their repentance, or to save me who knows better, but sins all the same?

Which is easier, to love the real atheist who doesn’t give a damn about truth and goodness, beauty and infinity, while he rehearses his next peccadilloes on couch and screen, or to dwell amongst us Trinitarians who exorcise the Holy Spirit from kitchens and boardrooms, chatrooms and mail lists, Saturday nights and crypto-cohabitations, hot dogs on Friday and curse words on Thursday, conniption fits at the spouse and kids, divorce and divorce and a house of steps, dissertations that applaud Weinberg and Dawkins and throw just enough jabs at those crazy fundies, magazine pieces that fawn over the newest outgassing from the industrial tower, big donations from agri-businesses and left-or-right of center foundations?

Which is easier, to say "Silver or gold have I none," or to say "Such as I have I give thee"?

Which is easier, to believe “Your sins are forgiven you,” or to get up when He says, “Rise up and walk”?

Which is easier, to pray or to breathe?