To The Girl at The Starbucks in Barnes In Noble (in Maryland)

-------/My Mystery Revealed To The Girl at The Starbucks in Barnes In Noble

Last night you served me a tall hot chocolate
prepared with care, set on the counter with a slight smile
direct eye contact
and a welcoming disposition
not at all cognizant of the shroud between us
the guise of the customer to Starbucks transactional
business relationship
masking truth inside me
which in other visits to Barnes and Nobles was not made known
to you or anyone else
because I deliberately erected a wall
of secrecy
but you are so overwhelmingly hot
so inspiringly breathtaking that I cant contain my emotions
any longer
and as the memory of the hot chocolate's (already rapaciously consumed) aroma
animates my romantic fervor
I must confess to you
an unworthy minister though I am, least of all men
revealing by the spirit of palpable attraction - that I want you
(this is a Savior; solace to my forsaken world without you)
that I want you to be a fellow heir of the same body of excitement
that I have (for us)
a partaker of the same promise of hope through the gospel
of actualized potential and dreams realized
and kisses bestowed on you while I run my fingers
through the red highlights in your pony tail extending behind
your black company issued hat
…the fellowship of inscrutability (I want us to share)
which has been hidden from you since the day I saw you
but my intent now is that the manifold wisdom of love
should be made known by the church of my written affectations
to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places
of future marital bliss
that these words would translate my constant staring at you
that the unspoken nervousness and fiddling
when you come to the counter or cash register
would no longer be a mystery:
I don't want you to be a Gentile anymore



(please date me????)



-------Ephesians 3:2-12
if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ), which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets: that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, of the same body, and partakers of His promise in Christ through the gospel, of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power. To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ; to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.