Love and Sacrifice Entwined

The image of the vine
threads knitted together
our savior, his example
love and sacrifice entwined
bound, as a cord
living in the vine
Lifting us up, from the depths
carrying us up, to the heights
Sacrificial love, following his example
releasing us from the daily world
binding us with God


September 24, 2009
Esther
and Romans 12:1
and Alive Now daily reflection
http://alivenow.upperroom.org/daily-reflections/daily-reflections-for-september-21-27/
for September 22, 2009 and September 23, 2009
“Love and Sacrifice”,
by Veronica Kelly Badowski

Diaspora

Wheat among the Weeds
Diaspora out in the world
From the tabernacle to synagogues
from the sanctuary to the end of time
the believers, the chosen
living side by side
the lost and the last
those who will be gathered up
and those for the flames
the unquenchable fire
at the end of the age
before the rise
the full flowering
of the kingdom


4/27/06 9:15pm
started June 2005
see Matthew 13:24-40; Psalm 73; Esther 3:8a; Zechariah 7:11-15


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