God who created the universe
is seeking followers
who will love God
with heart, mind, strength and soul.
Must also be willing
to love your neighbor as yourself,
even when you don’t want to.
Qualified applicants
don’t need education or experience,
just a willingness to be transformed
into the image of God
and shine God’s light and love
into a the hurting places of the world:
feed the hungry,
heal the sick
and bring good news to the brokenhearted.
Benefits include ridicule and persecution
as you take up your cross
and deny yourself.
Experience a peace that passes all understanding
(You’ll need it because the world still won’t make sense.)
and know that you are loved
beyond measure.
After watching and reading the April poetry challenge by Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Readingfor the past several years, I decided to write a poem a day this month. Mary Lee is hosting PO-EMotion, with a different emotion for each day of the month. Today’s focus is LOVE. For even more poetry fun throughout April, check out the roundup of poetry celebrations and projects at Jama’s Alphabet Soup.
I am also taking part in Spiritual Journey Thursday hosted by Holly Mueller on Reading, Teaching, Learning.
Kay,
I love this! I want to share it with my Bible study next Monday night! We are just finishing Philippians and just talked about counting everything loss, except knowing Christ.
By all means, share! I hope they like it too. I have been struggling lately with the push from some Christian groups to demand rights and protections agaist discrimination. Yes, I am in Indiana, though we are not the only place.
Kay, I was so thrilled to see that you joined our Spiritual Journey Thursday writing community with a very interesting piece on Love – a help wanted ad for followers of the Lord. I love this insertion: (You’ll need it because the world still won’t make sense.)
I’m thrilled you invited me! I’m still trying to make sense of the world!
I’m so happy you linked up with our spiritual journey community today, Kay! I hope you will participate every week, or at least most weeks! 🙂 What a clever piece of writing this is, and so poignant, especially this line:
“Benefits include ridicule and persecution
as you take up your cross
and deny yourself.”
I hope to join you in the future, too. I may not make it every week, but I will be by as often as I can.