It’s that day of the week again when Miss Kate gives us the word prompt of the week. This week we are working with the word Recover. Recover… to cover to have something placed over or around you, or to blanket an area (such as a ground cover). To recover is to regain something, or to go back to normal, or even to retrieve a product for another use. So knowing all this, what will I come up? And so it mostly wrote itself. Close Communion Recovered

Close Communion Recovered
A bridge broken
A deceiver came
and took a truth
and twisted it.
Just a bit
Just enough to sow
Doubt and confusion,
A turning to look at self.
A heart broke
Close communion lost
Yet still sought
And looking found.
Consequences spelled out
Pain and hardship
In working and childbirth
A head would be crushed.
Over the years
A great heart
Would continue to be
Broken but healing sought.
Always
Over and over again
Consequences laid out
End results promised.
Would people ever listen
Could a bridge to
Close communication
Again be built.
Then one day
A Son.
Born of a young girl
Who trusted God.
Out of a line
of people who
trusted God
Sought close communion.
This girl
and Her hubby
Learned to listen
To ponder God’s actions.
And so a boy
became a man
Growing in wisdom
Knowledge.
At age 12 he
astounded the teachers.
At age 30 he
frightened rulers.
He drew people in
Proclaiming
Son of man
Son of God
A bridge
close communion
with God
could be recovered.
Listen to him
Follow him
Chose the way
Of death.
Of death?
Really, was that the answer?
Death?
A Death chosen.
Death on a tree
burial
but listen
Recovery comes.
When Living
he ROSE!!!
That’s the way.
Death defeated!
This is how
a heel is bruised.
But
A head is crushed.
That head
Pride, selfish,
Green, Deception
Defeated by Life.
This life
One given sacrificially
the only way
To recovery.
A crushed head
leads to
close communion
recovered, with God.

Scripture Speaks
Genesis 3:1-5
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You[a] shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” 2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, 3 but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” 4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Psalm 2:7
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, “You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
Mark 16:5-6
5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. 6 And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.






The Great Recovery! Loved the poem!
thank you! 🙂
This is a beautiful way to tell the story. Enough to whet the appetite for the read Word but a fresh perspective to keep it new.
oh good! 🙂
Wonderful retelling!
Peace and grace,
Tammy
thank you Tammy. 🙂
I have found this poem helpful, Annette. Thank you. Family pressures have prevented me from contributing to the FMF linkup recently but it is good to rest and enjoy other’s blogs.
Thank you Letitia, I hope you can participate again soon. 🙂