“Pink Road Plus Layers” (Matt. 20:28; Mark 10:15 ) [Module #263]
I’d seen the loop with road of pink
Bring us to culture’s life to think
Both from above and down below
But over time I came to know –A fading in my memory
Of where I’d been, what came of me,
Until the layered-look emerged,
As “in” not “of” – no way submerged –Which kept my elevated way
Deeply involved in world each day,
Yet free within world’s nasty rules,
Restricted, viewed by all as fools.I wish I’d had perspective then,
In crossing cultures, knowing when
And where, and how, You’d have me do
Your will – and sometimes play the fool.I wish I’d had it in the towns
I’ve lived in through their ups and downs,
For free I’d be for this and that –
I did a lot, but little laughed.For freedom as His serving men,
As Kingdom-players, when He sends
Us to some work He’d have us do,
Is found in layered-look with you.Some towns have struggles; some are trapped;
Some leaders push and shove, are fat
With plunder taken from the weak –
But layers lets us have a peek –At how things are to be, could be;
At this and that’s which we can see
Us doing as at His bidding to
Give Jubilee through what we do.But mostly it lets tempos clash,
Without the friction – people ask
If we could help, do this or that –
We can, in Him, without the flak.So we can now disciple too,
Those folks with us in layered view;
Now that is freedom I have missed
Through days in world as heaven-kissed.Thanks Lord for this.
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