Do not touch.
Do not taste.
Do not handle, if you do
there’ll be quite the scandal.
Take off another’s sandal?
Not me! I don’t want the scandal.
The scoundrel shook his fist
at me! I don’t want the scandal.
I bowed, I beg, I bless? No
not me, I don’t want the scandal.
“Unclean! You are unclean!” They
yell this out to me.
I turn.
I rise.
I smile, yes!
Yes that is true, yet you are
clean to me!
Broken by leprosy, death
slowly crept in.
Bound and broken?
Am I halfhearted or full of
tokens?
Yes. I was unclean.
Do not touch.
Do not taste.
Do not handle, if you do
there’ll be quite the scandal.
Dare one go beyond a bitter
bite?
Dare one?
Would one touch, just one?
“Unclean! I am unclean!” I
yell out.
I rise.
I turn.
You smile and say, “Child,
you are clean to me!”
Touch,
Taste and
Handle, for there is one who
changed my scandal.
I love it Gordon!
ReplyDeleteOur JESUS loves when other won't! Thanks Karen.
ReplyDeleteIf we could all see through the eyes of Jesus....
ReplyDeleteSo true Kimberly!
ReplyDeleteI "saw" this one play out. Rejection turned into acceptance and approval; that matters soooo much. Thanks for posting and blessing as usual, Gordon. Keep on writing, man. Amen.
ReplyDeleteThanks for always being encouraging Sharon!
ReplyDeleteThis was, as usual, wonderful, I read this one to Richard and both agreed how awesome it was...Keep up such a wonderful ministry!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you MOM! May our God and Father overall Creation be glorified! He wasn't bothered by our weakness!
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