When will religion die?

So a side note: This Sunday was the first weekend of the new and improved Sunday school class by Rick and Sal. I was going to bring cinnamon rolls, but I got lazy when I got home and decided that I would not do the normal rolls that I have to let rise and take about three hours to make. This would mean getting up like at five in the morning, never that much fun. (unless there is a REI return sale) So I find this new recipe that I have never made, I get up early, make the rolls all nice. I decide that I am going to bake them at the church. I am sitting there checking on the rolls and getting a little upset at the lack of progress. All the people are in the class eating away at other people’s food but not the cinnamon rolls. Oh no my cinnamon rolls are just sitting there not cooking. Class starts and we watch the movie ( very cool, I have it and you should watch it when you can) I go back to the kitchen and am getting a little fusterated with the oven and its lack of cooking. I take off the bottom cover and what do I find? No flame, ya that’s right somewhere mid-point in the cooking process the flame went out and the safety switch kicked off, shutting off the gas to that half of the stove. So I transferred the partly cooked rolls to the working half and did end up getting them cooked.
OK so enough with the surface talk and funny stories. So I am driving home from Rick and Sal’s Sunday evening, I hear the words to a song that I have never heard before playing on the radio, it struck me dead center, I had to pull the car over and franticly write down the words. I just looked them up on google and this is the song:

There's a place where I love to run and play
There's a place where I sing new songs of praise
Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace
Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace

There's a place where I lose myself in Him
There's a place where I find myself again
Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace
Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace

There's a place where religion finally dies
There's a place where I lose my selfish pride
Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace
Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace

(Chorus)
I love my Father my Father loves me
I dance for my Father my Father sings over me
I love my Father my Father loves me
I dance for my Father my Father sings over me
And nothing nothing
Nothing can take that away from me
Nothing nothing
Nothing can take that away from me

Music and lyrics by Darrell Evans
© 2002 Integrity's Hosanna! Music
CCLI# 2795638

So much here, where to start? I guess the line that really did it to me is “There’s a place where religion finally dies” and than it was followed by the main line of “Dancing with my Father God in fields of grace”. I guess that it made me think of my life when religion seemed nothing more that a set of law’s to live by, not a life full of thanks for the grace, passion, and beauty. Part of the process that I went through was trying to separate religion from God. I love the line from one of the Nooma videos that goes: “Sometimes people confuse religion and God and walk away from them both”. It just makes me think of all the good and bad things that were and are being done in the name of “religion”.
Ok enough for now,
M@