Any Place, Anytime (Eph. 2:17-18)

When the earth cracks
and we are crushed -
it's hard to breathe.
We choke on dust
and hopelessness.

You bring water
to soothe our throats
and balm
to ease 
our wounded hearts
as we hear
our children
laugh again.

Becca Johnson - Nehemiah 1-3 - To Bellingham and Beyond

God Comes Through - Carlo Furlan "Prophets & Kings" series (1 Kings 17)

 

Darkness chosen,
it hovers over the land
rumbling and
threatening.
Enter Elijah
who says, 
"Enough!"

Clouds shrivel
and evaporate.
Earth cracks.
God points to a widow
and
Elijah follows,
one foot
in front of the other.

The woman is in dire straits
when Elijah
innocently asks for
bread and water.
It is too much for her
and she
lashes out
at cruel circumstances.
She has lost hope
and swallows despair
instead of food.
The future looks bleak;
all doors shut tightly
against her.
God's back is all she sees.

Elijah's words
cut a passage 
through her fear.
He offers his hand
and God's promise.
Limbs atremble,
she puts her bony 
hand in Elijah's
dusty palm
and
steps out.

God comes through.

David Knebel - Prophets & Kings 5.1.16

1 Kings 11:4-6, 9-11

God Comes Down - Tim Knipp, Prophets & Kings series (Gen. 3:8; 1 Kings 6)

Strolling through Eden
just to be with us,
God offers Himself -
a companion 
for life.

A temple rose slowly
in the desert.
Excellence graced
carved doorways
and statues
of awesome size,
Evocative of 
garden space
shared.

God comes down
to be with us
in the here and now,
to stitch Himself
as permanently as shadow
to our fractured
souls
so that we might
never
be
alone.

Prophets & Kings - Johanna Vicklund - 1 Kings 3:16-21

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