The Clean Basket

Our living journey
washed by living waters
Your Word alive,
washing over us
The sand of our sin
as a journey
little by little
washed from our lives
Slowly going
as if by gravity
falling from the basket
until we are washed clean


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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