Can't boast

After Romans 3:21-31

Can’t boast,

can’t take credit,

can’t crow and preen,

can’t show or perform,

can’t demonstrate,

can’t prove anything

on our own. It’s all

gone now, but we didn’t

do it. Someone else did.

All we can do

is claim it, by faith,

claim that white robe,

by faith.

That’s it.

That’s all.

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The light appeared

After Romans 3:21-31

The light appeared, next

to the stone, uncarried,

the weight no one could bear.

The light illuminated

the stone, every shade and smoothness,

every groove and roughness,

the stone a perfection

unattainable, unachievable,

until the light appeared

and shined upon it. 

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