By Your Living Word

Years of rebellion
the corrosive sand of my sin
filling me completely
not letting You in

Slowly but surely
adding Your living water
the sand falling away
by Your living Word

The sand emptied from me
making me ready
becoming and empty vessel
to be filled by Your Spirit

Your living waters flawing
washing me with love
filling me completely
poured out of my willing vessel

Washing the world with grace
washing other baskets
washed by Your living Word
the witness of Your love

April 11, 2011
Walk to Emmaus
http://www.upperroom.org/emmaus/
Luke 24:13-35
and story on pages 100-102
about sand, water, and the basket
in the book, “Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion”,
by Megan McKenna
from Chapter 5, “The Word Made Flesh”
http://www.amazon.com/Keepers-Story-Oral-Traditions-Religion/dp/1596270063
shared by Reverend Sharon Miesel
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/Bourne/pastor.html
April 9, 2011



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