Not Yet Christmas by J. D. Walt

Not Yet Christmas by J. D. Walt

Author:J. D. Walt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seedbed Inc
Published: 2014-01-15T00:00:00+00:00


A Lament for What Is Best

How long Lord will You allow us to lower the bar?

How long will You permit us to reduce discipleship

down to this sticky syrup of mere conversion?

Our greedy hands withhold the broken bread and shed blood.

Our mouths are full of barbed wire. Our feet carry us

always to the places of comfort and ease.

All the world enters our eyes upside down. But You

Oh Lord made the brain to turn it, to orient life toward

what is best. Deliver us from arrogant, unthinking certainty.

Save us from ignorant addiction to inalienable

rights and all of our piled up offences and slights.

Make us to walk in the way of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Press our hands into the rich soil of creation and harvest

the Good News of His character grown in us on Earth

as it is in Heaven. May it be so.

—John Ballenger



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