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Arthur Darby Nock

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God;
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Browning



Wednesday, January 11, 2023

We are needed

He needs you

That’s all there is to it

Without you he’s left hanging

Goes up in dachau’s smoke

Is sugar and spice in the baker’s hands

gets revalued in the next stock market crash

he’s consumed and blown away

used up

without you

 

Help him

that’s what faith is

he can’t bring it about

his kingdom

couldn’t then couldn’t later can’t now

not at any rate without you

and that is his irresistible appeal.

          Dorothee Soelle

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this world is going to he$$

in a handbasket!

 

it certainly is

it certainly can

it certainly will

 

unless

 

that is what Saviors are for

to save

to make things different

to bring repentance

 

not the repentance of

poor pitiful me

but the repentance of

“things have got to change”

it is time to turn things around

metanoia!

 

Jesus came to turn things around

he came to turn us around

to turn me around

 

with Jesus up became down, and down up

the first became last and the last first

giving became receiving and receiving became a time to give

and death became life

 

and so it is

and so it ever shall be

Jesus saves

 

by turning us around so that we

permeated by His presence

work

doggedly, persistently, hopefully, faithfully

to turn the world around

 

we are the hands and feet of Jesus

we are the givers, the healers

we are the salt that flavors

we are the light that shines

we are the voice of love

 

Jesus needs us

to be new creations

people reborn

the ongoing incarnation

that is all there is to it

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