Emphasis Preaching Journal

By your will, O God, by your will.
Your will be done, as it is in heaven --
not the sacrifice of blood;
calves bawling, sheep bleating,
the stench of fear,
the sweat that burns our eyes,
the sting of smoke, the sear of flame --
but the will of One who chose plain fishermen,
the foppish Nathaniel, dour Thomas;
who spoke to a Samaritan woman
of things deeper than the well he sat upon;
who chose a madwoman, touched by the streets,
to be the first to see him resurrected.
Your will, O God, as it is in heaven --