Wednesday, March 14, 2012

19. Lord of the Outcast

"But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first." Mark 10: 31


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Revolutionary.

From our inclusive world

it's hard to see that You were the first

to include.

Surrounded by diversity, by tolerance

it's easy for me to forget that

You died for diversity--

They killed you for Your tolerance.

You raised up the poor, the lepers, the Samaritans

and whores--

dirt beneath holy men's feet.

You--the first to make compassion holy.

But you didn't just give them compassion,

you gave them dignity--

not just dignity, you made them equals

not just equals, you made them kings

in the only kingdom

that ever mattered.

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