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Crossing Borders (5/19/17), A Poem

5/23/2017

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​The word
Spoken
At first it remains only a word
Heard or not 
It is only a word
But no sooner than it is
Spoken
It hits your ears
Ringing
Reverberating
Rousing

The word
Only a word
Spoken
Stirs the mind
Pierces the heart
Wrenches the gut
Filling the body, flowing through every cell
The word takes on flesh
Living
The Word transforms that in which it dwells

​Seconds, minutes, hours, days, years pass by
Ever growing
Disrupting and disturbing
The Word
Spoken
And heard
Seizes control
Drawing its inhabitants
To move and to speak
To say and to do
Borders are crossed
Thus causing One
Hurt and hurting,
Silenced and silencing,
Alone and lonely,
to cross a border
And speak a word.
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    Pastor Andrew

    I by no means have all the answers. As one who wrestles with his faith regularly, I bring with me tons of questions. I believe asking questions is a good and necessary part of our faith and life together. I also believe Christ calls us to question all those things that don't make sense. God has created us to think, to learn, and to grow. As I seek to question things I don't understand, may the Holy Spirit fill you also with a yearning to ask the tough questions in your life.

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