A Heart Warmed

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+------A Heart Warmed; The First Words Of Dorcas To Her Community After Peter Raised Her From The Dead 

And everything I fancied,
boasted of to you (by good works)
is true...
golden harps strum by cherubim
on silk strings, everywhere fragrant
smoke of incense in jeweled censers…
the broad, joyous, wizened smiling
of Father Abraham….amidst
laughter of prophets once
slaughtered…sheep who reclaimed
their lives, finally, from ungodly
wolves of worldly bloodlust. All true. But
until return I must retire my spindle;
The Son shines so brightly there,
always – my coats would be mockery.

------Acts 9:36-43
In Joppa there was a woman named Tabitha, who was a believer. (Her name in Greek is Dorcas, meaning “a deer.”) She spent all her time doing good and helping the poor. At that time she got sick and died. Her body was washed and laid in a room upstairs. Joppa was not very far from Lydda, and when the believers in Joppa heard that Peter was in Lydda, they sent two men to him with the message, “Please hurry and come to us.” So Peter got ready and went with them. When he arrived, he was taken to the room upstairs, where all the widows crowded around him, crying and showing him all the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made while she was alive. Peter put them all out of the room, and knelt down and prayed; then he turned to the body and said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. Peter reached over and helped her get up. Then he called all the believers, including the widows, and presented her alive to them. The news about this spread all over Joppa, and many people believed in the Lord. Peter stayed on in Joppa for many days with a tanner of leather named Simon.