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The Miracle of Giving

Twice Christ took the bread apart  with his human hands that he used for  such tasks, once with fish and once with wine,  the grain a pattern of tribute, distribute,  as he worked the division of himself into  feeding others with his body, taken but not taken,  there but not there, it was two times  two times two. Ever body got some body  who will feed them even when there seem hardly  enough to go round. When I hungered the word  fed me. Even so, so many others hungered  he needed a hundred more human hands.  That was when I said here take mine.

D. A. Powell

Listen to D. A. Powell read his poem.

D. A. Powell writes about his poem: I wrote ‘The Miracle of Giving’ during a Thanksgiving holiday, a meditation on Christian values during a time when Christians seem more focused on erasing and policing the lives of others rather than embracing or serving their neighbors and loving one another unconditionally. My inspiration for the poem was Rev. Cecil Williams, pastor of Glide Memorial Church, which provides meals, education, outreach and healing in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. Williams famously removed the giant cross that stood behind his pulpit and told the congregation, "From now on, you’re the cross."

He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”

Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”

Jesus said to her, “Mary.”

She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).  John 20:15-16

Today - on the third Sunday of Lent 2014 - we heard the lection about our Lord Jesus Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well according to John.

Living Water, Date Unknown, Painting, 25" x 30"