Karen Shakespeare shared this poem with us. Dana translated it and we used it for Covenant Day. I need it today - maybe you will, too.
God's People? Why Abraham?
"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” Genesis 12:2
Why should one be called and not another,
if you are indeed the God of all peoples?
Why are some singled out for your favors?
Why Abraham?
Abraham was called
not to have but to give
not to acquire status but to serve;
not to be elite, but to be the first true universalist.
Abraham was called
to leave the known for the unknown;
to be a wanderer in the land of promise;
to have no foothold but a burial place.
Called to be blessed;
much more he was called to be a blessing.
Is this then what calling means.
To be a people on the move,
not clinging to the tried
the safe,
the known;
but traveling,
responding to a half-heard voice?
To be a people on the move
whose goal is not their own salvation
into some exclusive heavenly club,
but the fulfillment of your purposes
for all humanity,
the salvation of the world?
Edmund Banyard: Turn but a Stone
"I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you;
I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.” Genesis 12:2
Why should one be called and not another,
if you are indeed the God of all peoples?
Why are some singled out for your favors?
Why Abraham?
Abraham was called
not to have but to give
not to acquire status but to serve;
not to be elite, but to be the first true universalist.
Abraham was called
to leave the known for the unknown;
to be a wanderer in the land of promise;
to have no foothold but a burial place.
Called to be blessed;
much more he was called to be a blessing.
Is this then what calling means.
To be a people on the move,
not clinging to the tried
the safe,
the known;
but traveling,
responding to a half-heard voice?
To be a people on the move
whose goal is not their own salvation
into some exclusive heavenly club,
but the fulfillment of your purposes
for all humanity,
the salvation of the world?
Edmund Banyard: Turn but a Stone
Dieva cilvēki? Kāpēc Ābrahāms?
Es tevi svētīšu un darīšu lielu tavu vārdu, un tu būsi par svētību.
I Mozus 12:2
Kāpēc viens tiek aicināts, Bet cits – ne,
Ja Tu patiešām esi Visu cilvēku Dievs?
Kāpēc ir daži,
Kas izvēlēti Tavai labvēlībai?
Kāpēc Ābrahāms?
Ābrahāms bija aicināts
Nevis saņemtu, bet lai dotu,
Nevis, lai iemantotu slavu, Bet lai kalpotu;
Nevis lai būtu elitē, Bet lai būtu pirmais patiesais universālists.
Ābrahāms bija aicināts
Pamest zināmo nezināmā dēļ,
Lai kļūtu par ceļotāju uz apsolīto zemi.
Viņš bija aicināts ne tikai būt svētīts,
Bet lai pats būtu par svētību.
Vai tad aicinājums nozīmē,
Ka mums jābūt cilvēkiem kustībā,
Ka mēs nedrīkstam turēties
Pie drošā un zināmā,
ka mums jāiet tur,
Kur mūs aicina svārstīga balss?
Būt cilvēkam kustībā,
Kura mērķis ir
Nevis personiskā glābšana
Kādā ekskluzīva debesu klubā,
Bet lai piepildītu mērķi par cilvēcību
Un glābjošo vārdu?
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