God takes our mis-takes. The first "take" with God, pips the 100th without him!

Well God's command was decimate, destroy! -
all of those people in the country where
they were to go, to the last girl and boy,
but he makes ways to include those who care,

who still persist when everything is stopped.
He seems to love the faith that this then shows.
He'll change his mind, & open options cropped
out of the picture till then. Sure, he knows!

- (but doesn't give a damn that he looks bad
to literalistic people who look on),
he loves those folk as though he was their Dad,
he'll glory over them in dance & song!

I'm thinking of that Caananite, Rahab,
who then became the "G-Grand-Mother" of Christ,
or else that other Caananite who had
the little girl, whose love was not enticed

to give up, when he said it was not right.
Then too there were those Gibeonite folk,
who tried to trick, & didn't want to die
today, & yet would serve as slaves - no joke!

And somehow as they tried, they did succeed.
Then God worked with them, & protected them.
It seems he wants to grow faith like a seed...
And then that time when Mary said to men

& women servants "Just do what he says",
that's after he said "My time is not yet":
The times had changed, or God's mind - for he cares.
And if Love did exist, that's what you'd get!