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You are God's poem...

10/1/2017

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"My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I love poetry. Some people just know how to capture a moment, or a feeling, and take the reader into their very soul.

We are all walking illustrations of God's expressions. Each are emotion, web and flow, of a gesture of who God is.

While in college a professor once told me that in my writing to be kind to the reader. "Write so that the reader doesn't have to struggle to understand what I am saying."

Sometimes I wish that the writers of some books in the Bible had heard those words, but that's when the need for God's spirit begins to be understood a little more.

There are just some things about this world that can be confusing at times.

I try to wait to look at the newspaper, or listen to news headlines until I at least have my first cup of coffee. With some of the things in the world today I have to be somewhat alert to try to even comprehend the actions of others.

It's both confusing at times and/or heartbreaking. In Ephesians the writer proclaims that we are God's workmanship. The word in Greek is "poemia." We get the English word, "poem" from this word.

Whenever I read this scripture, in my head I refer to humanity as God's poem, created by God, to do God's will.

Each of us are special. Connected by lines, and together serve as an illustration for others and one another, of God's creativity, but also beauty.

We are sonets and pericopes, strings of prose, that create an image that others may see as the image and Spirit of the Creator.

There is beauty, and a promise... live your life in hope, and realize that each of us are part of a living illustration of who God is.

​"You are God's poem created in Christ Jesus, to do great works, prepared for each of us ling ago."
​~ Ephesians 2:10


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G. Todd Williams (c) 2017
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    Rev. G. Todd Williams lives in the Houston metro area and is a Hospice Chaplain at Essential Hospice, Webster, Texas, and is an ordained Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) pastor.

    He serves as the Stated Supply to Westminster Presbyterian Church, Galveston, Texas.

    His new book, "Remember Me When..." is available through Chalice Press.

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