telling stories ...

https://www.challies.com/articles/beware-and-embrace-the-power-of-story/

Tim. I agree,
wholeheartedly.
But this I see,
following the

Jesus who spoke
to prod & poke
religious folk,
with story/joke

hardly have woke
-en ('cept as toke-
ken) to this bloke,
& what he spoke.

Yet we resort
(the long & short
of it) to sport,
we think we ought

to do to them
(our foe, or friend)
as we're bidden
by culture's men.

Please tell us some
stories, or one,
you have begun
(happy, or glum)

to these such ones
with pow'r of SON's
stories (and puns)
which shine as "sun's".

PW 9/Aug/2017

Is he not using the method he recommends? (Txt)

He shows quite well how others use stories
to get their points across to us with ease,
but as for stories that can help us sneeze
the life of God on them, to infect these

with his quite potent life (that's in the breeze).
He seems to stop just short a bit - & freeze.
Oh help him God (& us), to learn from Gees-
-us' methods who has taught us not to wheeze,

but breathe deep of the breath of God (who sees!),
& speak on breathe (that is renewed from trees)
against the death that unclean spirits' fees
resultantly bring with them - so they please.

Let God's creative rhyme and poetry-s,
from novels and from life - that's histories,
be spread, before we're dead - under daisies.
May we infect with life, not just disease!

Amen.