Day 5 of A-Poem-a-Day until Christmas
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IMAGINE
Imagine
worshipping a cooing one moment, whimpering the next, born to save us, sweet
baby God, lying in a trough filled with scratchy straw, needing a diaper change
Imagine
worshipping a stone-kicking, frog-in-pocket, sticky-fingered, tousle-haired
God, gleefully splish-splashing through mud-puddles along a rocky Nazareth road
Imagine
worshipping a nose-in-the-Scroll, confident little boy-God, teaching in the
Temple, confounding elders with astonishing Truths, as His parents search for
Him
Imagine
worshipping a rugged, long-haired, son-of-a-carpenter adolescent God, as He
learns (ironically) to skillfully select woods and deftly wield a hammer and
nails
Imagine
worshipping a gregarious, life-of-the-party, wedding-guest God, Who
miraculously turns stone jars of purification water into jars of finest wine at
Cana
Imagine
worshipping a child embracing, woe pronouncing, multitude feeding, leper
cleansing God, Who walks upon water, instructs the wind and even raises the
dead
Imagine
worshipping a bread-breaking, wine-offering, foot-washing God, Who soon to be
betrayed, beseeches His Heavenly Father, and sweats blood in an olive garden
Imagine
worshipping a 30-something, blood-splattered, fist-struck, scourged and
spat-upon God, laboriously lugging a cumbersome crossbeam to His own execution
Imagine
worshipping a thorn-crowned, sword-pierced, crucified-with-common-criminals
sacrificial Lamb of God, as He dies sinless for the sin of the world
Imagine
worshipping a resurrected three-days-after-burial God, Who appears ALIVE! Yes,
ALIVE! in His own burial garden, in locked rooms and to strangers along the
road
Imagine
worshipping this crucified, resurrected, gloriously ascending-in-the-clouds,
victorious Son of God, Who says, "Go into the world and tell them."
Tell them…
He did it for
them
Imagine…
Maude Carolan
Scroll to the end of the blog to locate ordering instructions for my chapbook, "Cookies & Poems".
Invitation: I will be the featured poet at a special holiday event, Saturday, December 19th at 7 p.m. at the Ant Bookstore & Cafe, 345 Clifton Avenue, Clifton, NJ. Come and enjoy poetry, music and Christmas cookies in a festive and warm atmosphere...and it's free!
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