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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA 
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The Green Tree or the Dry The cross will not be turned away. What came to one must come for all. No man has circumvented pain since father Adam’s ancient fall. The prophets strove to help us see the vanity of trying to live beyond it’s shadow while the better way of dying is the question more imperative than “how then shall we live”? Will life be wrested from our hands or something that we give? For either way we’ll lose it to the left or to the right regardless the ranks we hold of honor, wealth, and might. Unheeding of the paper shields of economic trust, fortresses of worldly joys, and gold infirm with rust, the Angel known as Moribund goes forth with sword in hand to slay both great and small both rich and poor throughout our land. And none are spared this office. Men appointed once to die are hastened to the judgement. Where can saints or sinners fly? Dry limbs are made for kindling and their falling is assured, despite the dreams of glistening fruit by which we were allured. But some have found the hyssop’s branch to daub their frames with blood. Each door in life reminding them of weight they never could have borne upon themselves. A Better Adam has prevailed. He walked the way to Calvary as frightened women wailed. “Oh Daughters of Jerusalem Weep not for me today but rather for yourselves and for the children of your way. For the pains you’ve seen upon me and these heavy beams I’ve taken are ominous and black as pitch. And yet I’m not forsaken. My tree will prove a tree of life. To live is my reward. To die as I will die is blest. Let Peter lose his sword. The world will never hear aright until you let it win then find that it has lost it’s life in me who bears its sin.” In the garden of beginnings dual trees were grown to say a choice remains for us to make. And man must go his way. This pattern hasn’t altered. Still today the choice is plain and stark before the eyes of all. To lose ourselves is gain. A man cannot deny the cross though he may not deny himself. He’ll suffer though he leaves the pains approved of God upon a shelf and never rises up to seek the holy ways of Christ, all rich endowments flowing when his own is sacrificed. And really if there’s one that’s due it’s own inherent fear, the cross one meets in fleeing it should prove the spurned most dear and something to be cherished when we cease from grumbling “why?” and learn which flows the sap of life the green tree or the dry. [This message has been edited by Stephanos (edited 08-13-2001).] |
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Trillium
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
Stephen: This is a monumental work! Well thought out and presented. A great read. Thanks. Betty Lou Hebert |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
Dear Stephanos. How well versed you are in the Bible and how mighty your pen. This was wonderful. Joyce. |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Wow! Some really fantastic lines in this and my favorites are: Will life be wrested from our hands or something that we give? and dry limbs are for kindling |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
This is what life is about we choose our path there no way around it, there no easy way. The decision is ours to be green or be dry. Really great poem. |
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Marge Tindal
since 1999-11-06
Posts 42384Florida's Foreverly Shores |
Stephanos~ A remarkable write~ ~*Marge*~ ~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~ |
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