The Eternal Child
Jan 10th, 2008 by John
The Eternal Child
by
John W Frye
I am
a one year old child
thrown from a bridge at night
into cold, deep water
because daddy had a fight
with mommy.
I am
a two year old child
sitting in the bloody dust of Kenya
next to my mommy, hacked to pieces
because of senseless war.
I am
a three year old child
sitting alone in a cold, concrete apartment
hearing loud gunshots in the hall
because daddy is dealing drugs.
I am
a four year old child
silently screaming, dreaming
of another safer place
because daddy is really hurting me.
I AM
the Eternal Child,
scarred by iron spikes through hands and feet,
alive from the dead,
and I will make all things right
for all my children everywhere.
This is My promise.
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Powerful post brother.
Thanks for your wisdom on my blog.
I greatly appreciate your wisdom and advice.
Love your blog and this post is powerful.
Preacherman,
I appreciate your affirmation.
How can we join with Jesus to stop this madness against children?
John
Good question. I always want to run in and take control of a bad situation and make it better. But sometimes all you can do is offer hope.
Powerful words. My first emotion was anger–as it should be at the horrors perpetrated upon the helpless. At the end, knowing what is coming, I felt pity for the perps–they have no notion of what is coming! There is justice in the cosmos!
I like to think that even the perps are not beyond redemption - being as they are in one sense people who have been perped upon themselves.
Fireball,
I, too, feel that tension–wanting to make it right and feeling totally helpless at the same time. Prayer is never a feeble response.
Duane,
Again, we have the tension—knowing that Jesus will bring justice agains the perps and, like Sue comments, hoping the perps find redemption in Jesus. These are issues that try our souls.
Sue,
I agree with you, but I felt anger as I wrote the free verse knowing that innocent children are being incredibly and horribly harmed. I want some people incinerated! But if I wish that, then I wish for my own incineration, too. Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy!
John,
It is a powerful paradox, is it not, this Jesus who will make things right. When? It is the waiting for that right time to make things right that vexes us, does it not? And the tension of what we can and should be doing in Jesus’ name to protect the weak and helpless…
Perhaps this is just another of those challenging already/not yet deals…Jesus already makes things right when his Body serves and loves, even though the time has not yet arrived when there will be no more tears and suffering.
Christ, have mercy, indeed….
Peggy,
I really this phrase of yours: “…Jesus already makes things right when his Body serves and loves, even though the time has not yet arrived when there will be no more tears and suffering.”
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