Monday, February 19, 2018

bramble, (at the edge of the healing woods)























it’s messy

a myriad of thickets and
thorns

tangled
and mangled

like broken societies

disturbed and
disturbing

(the whole perturbed world
for that matter)

it's "all gone to hell in a hand basket"
my grandfather used to say

but did you know
that long ago

Someone
saw something

worth saving


“And they laid him in a manger because there was no room for him in the inn.”  Luke 2:7

When i reflect upon the tragedy in our country this past week (the Florida school shooting), i can’t help but think of the innocent child laid in a manger those many short years ago. Sent down to this broken world to make a way for us through the thorny thickets…… to the healing woods beyond.


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