How we are to live

After Galatians 5:22-25 

Living in the Spirit

produces fruit, tangible

things we see, that are

expensive, that we know,

within us and within

the body. We see these

things:

love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness,

faithfulness, gentleness,

self-control. We have

left behind our old lives,

its passions and desires.

We are new creatures,

living in the Spirit,

keeping in step. We are

not citizens of this world;

we are strangers to it.

Our citizenship is someplace

else. We do not earn our way

to heaven; we are the vessels

through which the light

of heaven shines.

 

Photograph by Name Gravity via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

“To Keep a True Lent,” poem by Robert Herrick – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise – poem by Walter Chambers Smith at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

“Annunciation,” poem by J.C. Scharl – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

If I Had Not Been Writing the Poem – poem by Rene Emerson at Rabbit Room Poetry.

Among the Seven Golden Lamps – poem by Cody Ilardo at Power & Glory.