No need to sell, convince
Or argue.
Instead notice, listen, ask questions.
Love, facilitate
Share.
Welcome, pray and serve.
Tell your own story.
If we don't always know the answer
We can share what is certain and true.
Stumble over words
Speak what we know
From our sure rescue.
Be aware of more
than our own lives.
Take the risk
And remember what love
Came to us when someone
Left their safe comfort zone.
Willingness gifted us Hope.
Why do it?
For a notch in our Bible?
Or for bragging rights among the saved?
For the tickle of self satisfaction
For faithfully having obeyed?
We willingly recommend
Doctor, destination, diet.
Make us aware
Help us care
For those
With interest or need
Of Grace.
Deformed hearts --
inherited --
full of deceit,
greed,
cruelty
and more.
The list is endless.
Our frailty mars
the planet,
fractures relationships
and steeps
history in blood.
*Declare and believe.
Count the cost,
tally the dangers,
stand in the line of fire --
declare your allegiance.
**Rest in the resurrection --
that impossible,
mind-boggling,
flipping-on-its-head
event
that split history
in two.
Resurrection power,
let loose on the earth
breathes hope
for the poor,
the prisoners,
the sick
and the dying.
This power
is where your allegiance
will lie.
Imperfect though we are,
limping forward,
in spite of patched hearts
and tainted hands,
we declare
and believe.
***Good news
needs a voice to be heard,
a runner to run,
senders to send --
open arms to give.
*Rom. 10:9
**1 Cor. 15:14 & 19
*** Rom. 10:14-15
No.
It is not over.
Do not give up your hope.
Trust and follow.
