Saving One Life

Avoiding the massacre
the killing of the innocents
the one life spared;
flight to Egypt
The life of the one,
the one who was marked
to save the people,
of the covenant
of the new covenant
God saved the one life,
understanding, perhaps where we cannot
the uniqueness of this one life
this young child, born to save us
The child who was important,
before all tasks, before all other goods,
worthy of saving, of praise,
of reverence, of anointing with oil
the one soul saved,
from the wrath of the king
to save us all

January 10, 2008
Matthew 2:13-23
based on sermon, “Homecoming”, by
the Reverend Lori Eldredge,
Wesley United Methodist Church,
Concord, NH, 12/30/07 and Exodus 1:8-22;
and the discussion in Middle High
Sunday School that morning; and the stories of
Mary and Martha, and the gift of nard,
Luke 10:38-42 and John 12:1-8