A-Poem-a-Day
Until Resurrection Day...
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
Maude's book, "Behold the Lamb...poetically!"
is available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
For information go to www.maudecarolanpych.net.
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