While thirteen-year-olds riot on Rottnestand Middle East regimes fallAssassins smile and CEOs hide awayProphets amplify their call. Prepare the way! Get ready!Straighten things up and clear the road!If it’s peace you want, then roll up your sleevesAnd do the work, share the load. For peace within requires an altered mindAnd a disposition to forgivenessPeace withoutContinue reading “Advent Peace”
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Reflection triggered by “that” deportation
#Bloganuary Writing Prompt: What is a cause you’re passionate about and why? News just broke of his deportationTennis can’t save his mixed reputationOz immigration brooks no mitigationOutrage and sorrow split more than this nation. Yet refugees linger long through the years Detained indefinitely for fleeing their fearsSplit from family, self, friends and their peersAll butContinue reading “Reflection triggered by “that” deportation”
When Jesus let fly …
Christian activism, maligned by many, has one prominent stand-out exemplar – the cleansing of the Temple by Jesus described in today’s text in John 2:13-22. Holding passive sit-ins at parliamentary offices seems mild compared to the passionate action of Jesus turning over moneychanger’s tables and fashioning a scourge to drive animals from the temple precincts. BothContinue reading “When Jesus let fly …”
Wondering Pilgrim 