Living Water: Cleansing the Disciples by Sue

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Living Water: Cleansing the Disciples

©2011 Susan Noyes Anderson

Leather sandals, dusty feet,

soles worn out in service.

Lessons taught, lessons learned;

stilled souls waiting, nervous.

Passover dawns bittersweet;

bodies tense against the day.

Disciples listen. Master’s words

pass over them and slip away.

Confusion, fear; can it be true?

A Sword of Might should be their Lord.

He kneels, a servant at their feet.

“Nay, bathe us not,” their tongues implore.

He answers: if ye would have part

with me, then yield to mine own hand.

This Living Water washes soles of feet

and cleanses souls of man.

Alas, they did not understand.

A lifetime later, at the cross,

their broken hearts knew well the cost.

He rose again and made them whole:

mind and body, sole and soul.


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