When Jesus Speaks: Matthew 13

(based on Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52)

Orators
use words
that are slender-waisted
with many
wiles

to beguile
an audience
and manipulate it
to their own
will.

This Jesus
used words
like the gentle rain
from heaven’s
love

To awake
the passive
seeds of faith and love
and set them
free.

Ó B D Prewer 1996, posted on Bruce Prewer’s Home Page. Visit his site for many other great lectionary-based resources for worship on July 24, 2011 (the sixth Sunday after Pentecost).

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