Do you enjoy your job?
Life is a job and I enjoy my life. It is a paid position of sunny days, sounds of nature and God’s presence.
Kingdom of God
Palm Sunday
Look at a man riding the donkey
Go with him saying Hosanna
He is the one waited for
Spread the palms at His feet
He has come to save
Sing songs of joy
Praise His name
He is
Lord
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NaPoWriMo prompt Day 9 to write a nonet. This is based on Zechariah 9:9.
My Imagine
Imagine there is heaven
not only in the sky
what surrounds everything
and everyone
reflecting the divine
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NaPoWriMo prompt to pick a phrase and write against it. I took John Lennon’s “Imagine there’s no heaven”.
Crown
I wore it on my head
delirious from its weight
wanting to stay upright
posed and productive
ruling my thoughts
with more thoughts
demanding right words
to subjugate my subjects
learning to turn glistening crown
of diamonds and pearls
to a crown of thorns
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dVerse quadrille prompt with the word crown
The Alabaster Box
Six days before Passover
Jesus came again to Bethany
Martha served Him dinner
& Lazarus sat at the table with Him
Mary brought out an alabaster box
of costly oil of spikenard
which was imported from India
Mary anointed the feet of Jesus
& wiped His feet with her hair
& the house was filled with the fragrance
Jesus & the People
Jesus no longer walked among the people
Hé & His disciples went to Ephraim
a city near the wilderness
it was 6 days before the Passover
& people were wondering
would Jesus come to Jerusalem
His following was building
He had raised Lazarus
from the dead
& the priests & Pharisees
wanted to kill Lazarus as well as Jesus
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I’m in the middle of a 40 day series on Jesus going from Caesarea Philippi to His ascension.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem
Two miles away in Jerusalem
the priests & Pharisees
heard about Lazarus
& wanted council
for surely this man
does many signs
& the people
were believing he is the one
& Rome will take away our authority
& our nation
Caiphais the high priest said—
it is better that one man die
than a whole nation & so it was
prophecy that Jesus would die
& they plotted to kill him
Jesus Cried With a Loud Voice
Lazarus come forth
and he who had died walked out
released from his grave
Lazarus in the Tomb
Lazarus was dead & lying in a tomb
friend of Jesus
brother of Martha & Mary
who had sent word to Jesus
Come quickly my brother is sick
Days later Martha met Jesus on the road
as He was approaching Bethany
If only you had come sooner
my brother would be alive!
Mary came to Jesus & fell at His feet
If You had been here
my brother would be alive!
& she wept & Jesus wept
& the people wept
as they went to the tomb
Parable of the Minas
Jesus told this parable to His disciples on the way to Jerusalem because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. A parable would take a subject that was well known to the listener & compare or demonstrate that which was unknown. A mina was a unit of weight & currency, equal to 60 shekels, & 1/4 of an agricultural workers annual earnings.
Jesus said—
A nobleman went away to a far land to receive a kingdom for himself & to return. He called his servants to him, giving each one mina & said, Do business till I come.
After receiving his kingdom, he called his servants to see what they had gained by trading. The first servant had earned ten minas. The master gave him authority over ten cities in his kingdom because he had been faithful with a little amount. The second had five minas & was given authority over five cities. The third presented him with the original mina which he had put away because he was fearful & knowing the master as an austere man, collecting what was not deposited and reaping what he did not sow.
You knew this about me and did not even put the mina in the bank to draw interest. You wicked servant! Out of your own mouth I will judge you.
So the mina was taken from him & given to the servant with ten. The master said, for I say to you, that everyone who has will be given; and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.
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