Leave a CommentSong Of Strength
In my mind, I see the debka being danced. I hear music being plucked from the strings of the oud as if by magic. I hear a woman singing in Arabic. Her voice rises and falls like a swirling wind. The scenes and sounds do not stop at my ears and eyes. They travel through them into my heart. My heart sends the haunting beauty into every vein of my body. I do not move, but my spirit dances on the wind of the music.
Putting a Pretty Face on an Ugly Picture
In the photo the Israeli soldiers were marching through Palestine. Their faces were blackened and determined-looking with the flag of Israel waving majestically over their heads. Everything about them suggested –or at least was meant to suggest–their courageous acts…their willingness to sacrifice their very lives for their people and homeland…their unbending will…and oh, such piety…
Visions of Blood
Murdering abortionist, how see you the blood,
As you cut, butcher and slay?
As you sever and slash, forever for cash
You attempt to explain it away…
‘It’s only a fetus, of course, you know,
Not really a human of worth.
The birthing process is painful and slow
And there are too many people on earth.
The choice is yours,’ you say as blood pours
From the wounds of the babe God saw fit to create.
Oh machine of murder, programmed to hate,
Is this how you see the blood?
Virgin Mary, how see you the blood
Of your son as He is nailed to the cross?
He hangs in shame and you feel his pain.
Your tears flow as each blood drop is lost.
Bridges of Justice
As an American and a Christian I am supposed to support and bow down to the authors of the crime that is pictured above.
CRIME! What sort of word is that to describe this act? What sort of word can properly describe the horrific injustice wrought against that innocent branch of God’s creation? Is this a display of the justice for which my country is supposed to be famous?
I am a Christian American, and as a result of that my duty is to serve God and my country to the best of my ability. If serving God means that I turn away from the liars who claim to speak in God’s name but who support the horrors like the one shown above, then so be it. If serving my country means to fight against the injustices that my country encourages, then so be it. I am loyal to God, not to the people who assume that they are doing the will of God, but who instead are doing the will of their father, the devil. I am loyal to my country, not to the criminals who control it. I am loyal to justice and I refuse to sit quietly while other innocent people suffer and die because of a few greedy people and the lazy indifference of others.
Injustice makes a hell on earth for so many people. Just look at the picture above. Think of how many things would change if we restored justice. And it wouldn’t only change things for this life, it would make it easier to get to eternal happiness in the next life as well. Justice would make earth more like heaven than like Hell, as it presently is. It would bridge the gap between heaven and earth so that passing from this life to heaven would not be so difficult. There would not be such a deep, wide chasm through which to pass, but instead a bridge. A beautiful bridge of justice. It will be built, and I will help to build it.
Stefania Glenn
