Love One Another
There’s a din in the air,
a lion’s roar,
the sound of Christians eating each other
for breakfast.
Love one another, he said.
Here kitty, kitty.
Word Count: 26
All the One Word Less for Lent 2015 posts are bundled here.
In the stillness,
Sandy
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. ~ Galatians 5:14-15 (NIV)
Inspired by these posts related to social media debates and disagreements between Jesus followers.
A Quiet Appeal to Us in the Spirit of Matthew 18 by Deidra Riggs
Let’s Lay Down Our Swords by Michelle DeRusha
I found your poem so haunting in its imagery, Sandy. Amazing!
Blessings to you!
Thanks, Martha. It took me all of a couple minutes… I was shocked when the word count was perfect.
Whoa.
Gob-smacked.
I love that term. I heard it first from Susan Boyle.
Maybe we all should be observing the diminishing of words during Lent…maybe we should make them “few”as a practice…Love this series, Sandy.
I need to practice more than simply write… Thanks, friend.
We pray in the morning for the “easy and hard to love” – not eat the hard to love. That’s a hard message sometimes to wrap your brain around – until God gives you someone hard to love – and you start seeing them as God sees them. True message you wrote, Sandra – a bitter pill that needs to be swallowed and internalized.
Don’t let me “eat the hard to love.” Yes, that. Joyce Landorf called them “irregular people.”