Playing with a Little Poetry

Lamentations 3-5/Acts 23+24

This time of year is so damn exhausting. It’s like a constant battle where no one is dying and when one of us gains a little ground the other one brings reinforcements from over the top to defend and then push back.

Praise the Lord for being my right hand!

            Praise the Lord for going

            before and behind.

Praises to the King for being both

            a mighty ruler and Mighty Warrior.

Two years Paul spent in prison before Felix.

Seventy-five years the Israelites spent

in exile before the Babylonians.

Thirty-three years Jesus spent in exile from Heaven,

imprisoned in flesh.

            There is nothing new,

            There are no surprises,

            Nothing shocks

            The Spirit of God.