| Saturday, February 17, 2007 |
| Alter Offering (Romans 6) |
The summer night
I let it go; so slowly fade
as the mist that just missed
a heat relieving rain
and I long after it as
I long for those cool showers
Letting that part rot and wither
and die on the pedestal I placed it
like watching a wilting rose
slowly consumed by it's own thorns
until it resembles rusted barbed wire
a stripped bare truth
and when darkness overcomes
the shadows cast are regal
like the rest. The proud night
blending lack of color and color
until you long for those petals
forgetting the pain of the stalk.
Upon the morning there is sunshine
I wait for it here;
Holding my breath and damning the sky
for its lack of rain.
On the morrow I will be cleansed
but for now I cower just trying
to believe in the son;
In the hope. By my side
he waits comforting me not,
Letting me kill the killer,
letting me feel the pain,
the pain of damning the lack of rain.
He sits so silently staring
at my withered, rotting rose
clutched so dearly in fingers light.
Ripping off the last joyous petals
exposing harsh hardness underneath,
slowly turning he wreaths it
in peaceful anger, pressing on his head.
Turning to my dying form his
face streaked with blood filled tears:
"Watch and pray so that you will
not fall into temptation."
I look to the fading mist
and long for what is lost.
He looks to a nearby hill
and there three regal trees;
strong and bound and crossed
and thinks of there what might be gained.
Though his be large and mine be small
sit we here in Gethsemane
thinking about the cost. |
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Name: ~KL~
Home: Ipswich, MA, United States
About Me: 1 Corinthians 1:26 - 2:5 "Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things - and the things that are not - to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God - that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: "Let him who boasts boast in the Lord." When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eleoquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive owrds, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power."
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