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“Sweep me away” – A Poem of Jonah – Jessica Boudreaux

A Pseudo-Psalm, by a Pseudo-Jonah:Jessica Boudreaux - Destroy them Lord -And then destroy me, tooFor i have also done evilBefore Your ever-searching eyesAnd am no longer worthyTo be called Your childBut unlike Nineveh that Great City,I kick and fight and screamEven now sheltered and safeInside this giant whale,(For me an Ark In The Sea)And still refuse to receiveThe Word that of Your kindnessThat was also meant for me-Always resisting submitting toThis vast Ocean of Love and PeaceThat is always flowing from You-So how is it that with their blindNinevite-eyes they can seeThat they are seen,And so effortlessly receiveThe Words that I ...

Guest Post: “Where Do We See Jesus?” Jessica Boudreaux

If Jesus doesn’t look like me, then he doesn’t look like the beggar on the street—or the widow or the orphan or the hungry or the sick- because all of those people live inside the depths of my own heart. There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’ that we need to reconcile—only the paradigm of division. This signifies that it needs to be healed. There is only the One Body of Christ, and we desperately need to remember that we are all tiny little crumbs, pressed together, and together, forming One Holy Loaf.