17 August 2011 - Ezekiel 3:14-15

"The spirit lifted me up and bore me away; I went in bitterness in the heat of  my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.  I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the river Chebar.  And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days."

In the Spirit,

I was afraid

Yet the Lord carried

Me in safety to

The place where

The lonely found life:

The River of Creation

Flows past those

Who are unaware:  Exiled,

They do not know the

Place beneath the surface;

The Life in the current

of God's Eternal Waters

Among them, I found

Despair.  Among them,

I found emptiness

I cannot return to

The River alone

Against my will,

I was set among

The lonely, to lead them

Into the River

Immerse them

In God's Holy Baptism

Drown them

In the Peace

Of Eternal Understanding

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Who are these who

I am charged to teach?

Who are they but

My brothers and my sisters?

I sit at the River's edge

And wait.

(c) 17 August 2011