What is idolatry?
Idolatry is trusting in created things rather than the Creator for our hope and happiness, significance and security.
(New City Catechism)
Unclear the moment
when the tree ceases to be
an ornament, a source of food,
a sign of flourishing,
growth
and becomes
a means of carving power,
a pillar-altar to knowledge,
a ladder for striving
hearts.
Unclear when hands
turn from prayer to praise
of that which they themselves have made,
which their own thumbs
support.
Unclear when folly
becomes the moment’s latest truth,
when stars cannot illumine dullness
in our darkened
minds.
The Consolations of Writing 