The water of Your Word
washing the basket of our clay
the sand of our sin
inexorably giving way
The pouring of the waters
loving in Your living Word
washing us ever
until we are restored
April 11, 2011
Walk to Emmaus
http://www.upperroom.org/emmaus/
Luke 24:13-35
and story on pages 100-102
about sand, water, and the basket
in the book, “Keepers of the Story: Oral Traditions in Religion”,
by Megan McKenna
from Chapter 5, “The Word Made Flesh”
http://www.amazon.com/Keepers-Story-Oral-Traditions-Religion/dp/1596270063
shared by Reverend Sharon Miesel
http://www.gbgm-umc.org/Bourne/pastor.html
April 9, 2011
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