A Baptist bowl
and a lot of water
met for a moment
one November day
Some fifteen years gone bye
Back erect
Arms folded across your chest
You fell back into loving arms
joining a fellowship, a community
a new walk, a reconnection
a new life up from the waters of life
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edited August
15, 2019
Holy Water –
v4
edited July
28, 2019
Holy Water –
v3
edited July
28, 2019
Baptismal
Waters – v5
edited July
28, 2019
Baptismal
Waters – v4
(editing
original again)
edited July
15, 2019
Baptismal
Waters – v3
edited January
15, 2019
Baptismal
Waters – v2
&
edited January
15, 2019
Holy Water –
v2
(edited after
contact by composer, Gwyneth Walker, who wanted to
use the poem
for a choir composition
&
January 11,
2006 23:25
Holy Water
Mark 1:9-13, 15
&
January 11,
2006 23:45, revised 1/12/06 6:16
Baptismal
Waters
Matthew
27:24-26
&
January 11,
2006 23:30
Baptism
(about Dad’t
baptism, November 1990)
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