"When you begin to think outside the box, you often become some other "leaders" lousy follower. That usually costs something" (Andy Rayner)

"Our guardian angels are bored." (Mike Foster)

It's where I feel I'm at these days. “In the second half of life, it is good just to be a part of the general dance. We do not have to stand out, make defining moves, or be better than anyone else on the dance floor. Life is more participatory than assertive, and there is no need for strong or further self-definition” (Falling Upward. Richard Rohr.120).

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Walking Wounded!

Illustration: Willing to Suffer for Christ

Poem; "Toward Jerusalem" 1935,by Amy Carmichael ,Missionary to India

Hast thou no scar?

No hidden scar on foot, or side, or hand?

I hear thee sung as mighty in the land,

I hear them hail thy bright, ascendant star,

Hast thou no scar?

Hast thou no wound?

Yet I was wounded by the archers, spent,

Leaned Me against a tree to die; and rent

By ravening beasts that compassed Me,

I swooned:

Hast thou no wound?

No wound? No scar?

Yet, as the Master shall the servant be, And pierced are the feet that follow Me;

But thine are whole: can he have followed far Who has nor wound nor scar?

("Amy Carmichael, For The Children of India", Sam Wellman, pg 178-79, Barbour Publishing 1998)

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