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Ascension
It was not a beautiful death.
It is not by machinery but by faith:
--Niska Ramkhelawan.
The Savior’s Cross coveted the role
of being the holy graphite
in Jehovah's Great Pencil.
Just humble wood, yet became a holy
symbol; for the crucifix will forever
be the launching pad for
Glenn Buttkus
Posted over at With Real Toads
for Kerry & her HS students,
inspired by Niska Ramkhelawan--FAREWELL
over at somewhere i have never traveled
4 comments:
A torture instrument becoming holy..
Yes, like Bjorn the idea of an instrument of torture being worn as an emblem of faith has always given me pause for thought.
Yes, the contradiction of the crucifix becoming a beacon of light. The use of graphite - the pencil and all that has been written in the New Testament... Again, superbly done.
Succinct and powerfully penned.
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