Bible: 5 Poetic Books

Lesson 8: So What's It All Mean, Then?

Closing thoughts

Putting words to paper is a passion of mine. So is reading beautiful passages that others have written-especially those in the Bible.

Again, remember to write those precious thoughts down, and

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Peace always,
Chuck Baker

The Conversion

Even the stones drip.

You see souls swimming inside, they give themselves to You. The hardest heart gives way, gives, sways, until it cracks and gives up Living Water.

We met that way. How I resisted.

My cold granite face rejected your hand. I affected love, deflected love— You found an opening and powered inside me, fracturing resistance, crumbling contempt. Then out flowed Living Water.

But I was only one pebble, one stone from the rock pile.

Changed, transformed, part of a flowing fluid that washes clean, wears away at others, wears to sway others, carving out more souls with Living Water.

I see I’m not the only miracle.

Small streams converge, form a rushing river, slamming the land, and the sound in my ears is a rocking crack of cracking rock.

Earth gives way to Living Water.

Be a light to show others the way. Be water when they are thirsty. Be an open door when they need a friend. Be a heart that is full to overflowing. Be an open sky, full of possibility. Be a listening ear in times of strife. Be loving, joyous, peaceful, patient, kind, good, gentle, faithful, and self-controlled. And know that in doing all of these, it is always possible to …

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