Lenten Journey- Day 1

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Amidst all

Capable of dashing our hopes

We remain true to our cause

Lenten Journey – Day 1; Feb 22^rd  2012

Biblical Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10

Lenten Journey- Day 2

Eternal Fellowship

With Him

Is all we pray for

Lenten Journey – Day 2; Feb 23^rd  2012

Biblical Scripture: 1 John 1:3-10

Lenten Journey- Day 3

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Pilgrim, the echoes on these hills

Could irritate the ears

But that never stopped dissemination

Lenten Journey – Day 3; Feb 24^th  2012

Biblical Scripture: 2 Timothy 4:1-5

Lenten Journey- Day 4

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Pilgrim, to mingle with all—

The tax collectors and sinners—

Is the ‘Concealed Law’

Lenten Journey – Day 4; Feb 25^th  2012

Biblical Scripture: Matthew 9:2-13

Lenten Journey- Day 5

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Pilgrim, through the death of Jesus

We are made alive

Can’t think of a bigger miracle!

Lenten Journey – Day 5; Feb 26^th  2012

Biblical Scripture: 1 Peter 3:18-22

Lenten Journey- Day 6

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We died in our former selves

Transcended to newer selves

The Grace made us so

Lenten Journey – Day 6; Feb 27^th  2012

Biblical Scripture: Ephesians 2:1-10

Lenten Journey- Day 7

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To do good

To shun evil

Pilgrim, that is our mission

Lenten Journey – Day 7; Feb 28^th  2012

Biblical Scripture: 1 Peter 3:8-18a

Lenten Journey- Day 8

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Know what Pilgrim?

After the devil tempted Jesus

The angels waited on him!

Lenten Journey – Day 8; Feb 29^th  2012

Biblical Scripture: Matthew 4:1-11

Lenten Journey- Day 9

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Fidelity to the law

Yet Grace of God for our iniquities

That is the realm of my faith

Lenten Journey – Day 9; March 1^st 2012

Biblical Scripture: Romans 3:21-31

Lenten Journey- Day 10

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To the circumcised and uncircumcised;

To all nations;

The same watermark of righteousness

Lenten Journey – Day 10; March 2^nd  2012

Biblical Scripture: Romans 4:1-12

Lenten Journey- Day 11

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Pilgrim, when we are convinced

Aware of the knowledge of ‘Him’

We worry not what others say

Lenten Journey – Day 11; March 3^rd 2012

Biblical Scripture: Romans 4:13-25

Lenten Journey- Day 12

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Like Abraham, we are all Heirs

Of the righteousness of Tororot

The Anointed descendants

Lenten Journey – Day 12; March 4^th 2012

Biblical Scripture: Romans 4:13-25

Lenten Journey- Day 13

Tororot, You are the Ultimate

Unchanging, Immortal

Unlike us the mortal pilgrims

Lenten Journey – Day 14; March 5^th 2012

Biblical Scripture: Hebrews 1:8-12

Lenten Journey- Day 14

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Pilgrim, what is Faith

If not an assuredness

In a world with meticulous pessimism?

Lenten Journey – Day 14; March 6^th 2012

Biblical Scripture: Hebrews 11:1-3, 13-19


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How Times Change!

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The Old Man taps his snuff bottle gently

Then peers into a distance

As if in a reverie:

A bad mannered young man

Wagged his fingers on his face

He winced, and hoped

That lightning never struck him

Another tail of a goat blew dust

Into his eyes with his big motokaa

And now, so many miles from the market,

He had forgotten to buy his tobacco

His nose, like pepper on wound, irritated

When his feet was light,

He could walk from Nasal to Nauyapong’

Swift like an antelope

When he was this size (so young actually)

Donkeys carried posho and never stirred dust

Then, if somebody’s bad whispered

Was caught in his ears

He could tear him into sixteen pieces

How times change!

Poem written in response to Poets United's The Thursday Think Tank #86 - Rebirth

My Child, If Sinners Try To Entice You, Do Not Consent!

Proverbs 1:10 ​​​​​–15

My child, if sinners try to entice you, ​​​​​​do not consent!

​​​​​​​If they say, “Come with us! ​​​​​​We will lie in wait to shed blood; ​​​​​​we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. We will swallow them alive like Sheol, ​​​​​​those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit. We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; ​​​​​​we will fill our houses with plunder. Join with us! ​​​​​​We will all share equally in what we steal.”

​​​​​​​My child, do not go down their way, ​​​​​​withhold yourself from their path;

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Little Pilgrim, the Laws of the Land

Prohibit innocent blood shed;

Many therefore obey it

Yet, in their hearts, they have killed many

Eyes that dart like arrows

Mouths that soil happiness

Evil thoughts that can suffocate brain cells

It would not be enough, Little Pilgrim

That you preserve life and other people’s wealth

Steal not from a brother

Plunder not from a stranger

Having desisted, condemn these

At the top of your lungs

So that you are absolved from the sins of omission 

“The Man”

Mark 2:12 

And immediately the man stood up, took his stretcher, and went out in front of them all. They were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

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“The Man”—why didn’t he have a name?

He stood up, yes, that much we are told

He took his stretcher, we read that

He walked away, wait a minute, well…

But who was “the man”?

He could have had a name—right?—

Say, Zebedee, Nebuchadnezzar or Zechariah

Why didn’t he have a name?

Was it that his name slipped out of memory?

Did Mark perhaps want us to grapple with this?

To wonder, for instance, that “the man”

Could be us on our various stretchers in life

Immobility in sickness, paralysis in faith?

Could “the man” be the shadows lurking within us

Afraid of the journey, numbed in oblivion?

What was “the man’s” name, I ask.