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Mystery Embodied

A poem for Holy Week the lover cries the divine spark glows consuming and empowering identifying, locating, mystifying the concepts are never reached the symbols are encircling being outward and visible despite the lack of color defining love and hunger beyond the deceptive intelligence our senses let us know when what is myst is found

The Healing Power of God's Love

"The Almighty Lord, who is a strong tower to all who put their trust in him, to whom all things in heaven, on earth, and under the earth bow and obey: Be now and evermore your defense, and make you know and feel that the only Name under heaven given for health and salvation is the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  Amen." (BOS) “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” A very curious statement. Jesus is talking to Nicodemus, a leader among the Pharisees. They are having a discussion about who Jesus is, because Nicodemus knows that no one could do the things that Jesus is doing without being from God, but he cannot quite believe that Jesus is from God. Jesus is trying to help him understand and uses the scriptural story from Numbers to illustrate. The way to make the parallel between the story from Numbers and Jesus’ own story goes like this: The people’s relationship