A New Adam

It these tests, these trials,
these temptations in the wilderness
after fasting those forty days
Jesus began, started, the reconciliation
the joining with God, stitching the breach
caused at the beginning, in the garden
Reducing the separation with God, the first-born
of the new covenant, beginning the steps,
the journey to humility, to fidelity,
to ministry and sacrifice.
The journey to the cross, not merely inexorable;
a conscious choice, like the bite of the fruit,
with a healing difference

February 10, 2008
Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7,
Matthew 4:1-11, Genesis 1:28-31, and
the sermon, “My Brother’s Keeper”,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss,
Sanbornville United Methodist Church,
Wakefield, NH, 2/10/08
and the sermon, “Seeing With New Eyes”,
by the Rev. Lori Eldredge,
Wesley United Methodist Church,
Concord, NH 2/10/08