"Life Up On The Acetate" [Module#351] (Matt.24:42-44)
A different life appears to me
Up on this plastic layer – I see
So clearly down below, the blocks
Created when one’s neighbor talks –Or acts to stop us in our tracks;
Slip dagger in our flesh-turned backs;
Betrays like Judas in the night
For silver coins – to him seemed to right.“Whole armor” now to me seems like
The plastic layer – quite different type
Of a way to keep each one from harm,
When danger comes, we hear alarm.With striving eased by acetate,
And prayer-dynamics, now our plates
Are filled each day as needs we have
And burden hearts find healing salve.Each one of us emits some light,
Like fireflies in an igloo’s night,
We form a beacon – “Come up here
And see the life around made clear” –The process, as with end results
Of prayer-dynamics – they’re about
A way of life on acetate;
The Kingdom’s now – we need not wait.Push back the dark where e’er you roam –
On layered-place; at work and home;
At school or university;
Or college-life; let others see –A freedom made for here and now,
Despite what neighbors won’t allow;
Here, as with evil one we hear
What active-willingness made clear –The path to greater life around,
For evil one’s there on the ground;
But for all up on Kingdom-layer;
Expansion comes with Jesus’ prayer.Lord, thanks for this slow-change in all;
For Kingdom-life here since the fall;
For way made clear for all concerned,
To Kingdom-life, of which I’ve learned.Thanks Lord for this.
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