Matthew 5:43-45 …“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR and hate your enemy.’ 44“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.…”
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I look out of my window
through panes of glass
the blur
warbling images
as I glace from side
to side.
The light parades
itself
dancing to the
jostling rotation
of this God breathed
earth.
From inside
safe and sound
perhaps more in
mind
than in body.
Reality – outside
bleeds darker shades
crimson blending
into the soil.
Heart ache
well within reach
yet, if I close my eyes
I can
make believe
it doesn’t exist
safe behind my tempered glass.
But glancing
from side to side
eyes wide
taking it all in
it would be a sin
to ignore it.
A sin to make believe
it isn’t there.
A sin to stay…
to remain seated
safe and sound
in my little corner…
Something within me
beyond me
beckons
that I should go.
He beckons
that I should act.
“Oh Lord,
I have little strength
how can I do
what you would me do?”
And from my little corner
peering out
I hear Him say;
“My child who says
you should use
your strength?
for yours would
but a fraction be,
a second
in an hours time…
I will go with you.
My strength I
will impart
to you,
I will walk before,
beside and behind…
you will never be left alone.”
Now…
I am on the outside,
at times uncertain…
not of His presence
and power
but of where
He will lead
me next
for I go,
not in my strength
but in the One
who
beckons me onward.
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