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Topic: Insulted (11/01/04)
TITLE: God's Scary Mathematics By Melanie Kerr 11/06/04 |
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Forty two, times ten, plus one, divided by two, equals…?
Forty two youths
Forty two sons
Forty two potential husbands
Forty two potential fathers
Forty two lives cut short
Forty two dead bodies
Forty two funerals
Forty two graves
Forty two times ten...
Ten words (according to the New International Version)
Ten words shouted
Ten spiteful words
Ten mocking words passed back and forth
Ten words to injure and insult
Ten lethal words
Ten words spoken that carried a death sentence
Ten last words
Forty two, times ten, plus one....
One traveller
One man of God
One prophet
One confrontation
One look that pierced the heart
One chance for conviction, for repentance
One curse called down
One answer instant and powerful
Forty two, times ten, plus one, divided by two...
Two bears
Two angry bears
Two bears from out of the woods
Two bears robbed of their cubs
Two bears mauling
Two bears slashing
Two bears with bloody claws
Two bears with vicious jaws
Forty two, times ten, plus one, divided by two, equals…judgement?
Where is the "sticks and stones may break my bones
But words will never hurt me"?
Where is the "turn the other cheek"?
Where is the "soft answer that turns away wrath"?
Where is the "slow to anger" and the "rich in mercy"?
Where is the Father's love?
One look was enough to see
Forty two sons
Like the forty two fathers
And grandfathers before
Passing on and teaching
Ten spiteful words
To injure and insult
To the next generation
Forty two sons
Like forty two fathers
And grandfathers before
Passing on and nourishing
Hardened hearts
Closed ears
Mocking lips
Bunched fists
Potential fathers
To the next godless gneration
Like a circle broken
It ends now