two thousand & twenty six years since...

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Once we said our year and then  “A. D.”

acknowledging the point where Hist’ry turned.
I liked it for myself for I can see
it in my world, and my small life has learned

it by experience, I needs recall

who’s Lord, and owner of “my” time & place -

the big was metaphore for this life’s small..

small scale of something big, which human’s trace.

And now we're trying hard to overlook

all meaning - that might mean we’re not the boss.

We don’t like stories where there is a hook.

We cancel ticks, for they imply a cross.

And on the back of cultures disciplined,

who trained their young quite hard for excellence,

we’ve seen results of not thinking “We’ve sinned!”

by wasting, & for tasting what “made sense”

to little kids with reference-points all skewed.

We didn’t have a chance without “A.D.” -

(don’t think “in words” alone), life is renewed

when humans train - under a coach “in deed*”.

And this two thousand & twenty-sixth year

’s gone yesterday. We now start on the next.

We want the prince of life to rule down here

through these small lives at least. We won’t be vexed.

We’ll trust his choices, though they were not ours.

We think he knows a bit more than we do.

But trust his love as well, to use his pow’rs

where he thinks best, to hear our voices too.

Our year ended in A.D., now C.E. -

the Era where we turned a corner in

the hist’ry of our world -we look and see

the Common people changed by glory in

the Common place since he took on our flesh

and blood & bones as well, it’s changed the world.

But it could change back, we could be enmeshed

in fishing nets that also have been hurled

out to catch us for food, to bolster that

insatiable desire - of evil (one)

Not ev’rything that meows is a cat.

Have you learned how to do it, just for fun?

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“ As he walked along the shore of the Lake of Galilee, he saw two fishermen, Simon and his brother Andrew, casting their nets into the water. “Come and follow me, and I will teach you to catch men!” he cried. At once they dropped their nets, and followed him. (Mark 1:16-18)

“to those who by keeping on doing good deeds, seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life,” (Romans 2:7)

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