Buried & Resurrected

Matt G. led our focus this morning[1]. We were given some bright pink post-it notes. Told to take one, & write on it Two things to “offer to God” on  this morning. I took Matt G. to mean “faults or failings or weaknesses” though after a while I wasn’t sure if others had chosen any offering; even the sacrifice of a good thing. Any way I stuck with what I thought he wanted for then. Then he took us all outside under a tree, to a hole that had already been dug with a shovel & offered us the opportunity to personally put our note into the hole & put some of the dirt onto it. During this process I looked up & noticed about 20 galahs, lined along the branches or hovering above, watching; who then flew off as we finished:

About a score of bird

(with “post-it notes” of pink)

were watching (& they heard)

a score of “birds” (small wink)

below them at their tree,

a score of people stood,

and listened to Matt G.

& offered up to Good

some things they weren’t proud of

(& maybe good things too?)

for worms to eat

to make the sweet

good soil as they do

(with poo).

(Of my two; a failing

that I wrote on that pink

sticky-note was “ailing

‘bout what ‘they’, of me, think.)

They took their pink-ish notes

& buried them below

the tree where sits (or floats)

the score of birds (or so).

And these, the witnesses,

then flew off with news-sing

“the human litmus-es[2]

show life is renewing”.

And the breeze that blew may

have brought the spirit/breath (in)

that came that “Jordan” day

Jesus pre-buried death (sin).

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[1] Wednesday morning; 11 April 2012

[2] A “litmus paper” is a small note of  coloured paper, which when torn from its book & dipped into a liquid turns a shade of pink or blue, which colour in turn shows the acidity/alkalinity of the liquid it is dipped in. This could show various things about what is growing, or could grow, in or with, that liquid.