Poem for Hard Days

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Kathy Capps--one of my favorite people plus hubby: Kerry. Both are very creative. Kathy is writing meditations on the gospel of Luke. This comes from her blog:

Every day
As I read the news
I see a legion of demons

Fear and danger
Have invaded our land
As with the demonic
Of these ancient days

We try to control it
We bind it the best
We can
And it breaks free
To roam dark tombs
Of death and despair

How often have we seen evil
Reign
When good people
Believe a lie
And become the lie

This man had forgotten his
Name
He allowed the demons
To name him
As they named Jesus

You sent his demons
Into swine
I do not understand
That
Perhaps a revelation
For another day

What I understand
Is your power to heal
And how our world
Like this man’s town
Reacts with fear
To this great unknown

What you ask of
Each of us
Is not the same

To some you say follow
To this man you say
Stay

We are given
To the place where we can
Meet a need

We are told
To return good for
Evil

Hard words in a
Hard time

But as always
Words of grace
And healing

--Luke 8.26-39

Her email is: orphangirl17@gmail.com--Thanks Kathy

--Roger Lovette/ rogerlovette.blogspot.com