Haiku for the start of Lent
Immediately:
baptism to temptation.
Mark gives no details.
In the wilderness,
tempted; forty days, Satan,
wild beasts, and angels.
Satan the tester,
doing what God asks of him;
checking out Jesus.
How was he tested?
Mark has no answers, leaving
us to speculate.
Jesus commences;
he will not be diverted
from his Father’s will.
Comes to Galilee
with God’s message of good news:
The day has arrived!
The kingdom is near,
the age of love is revealed;
believe it and live!
© Ken Rookes 2021
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