Monday, February 15, 2021

Testing Time

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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