Elemental Kingdoms #IamPeter

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+-----Elemental Kingdoms; The Thoughts Of Peter Before Walking To Jesus On The Water

The Greeks swear Poseidon
is, when sailing, among us
always. Beneath us his trident
a vanquisher of worlds, ships, men
when its butt slammed against
the sea’s bed impassioned. As 
he nears: wind gusts vehement, waves
turbulent, erratic – Cain angst-ridden
contemplating the slaughter of
Abel the night before. A soul snared
by hatred. If you really are God, tell
him to stand down…humbled. Let me,
like you, walk on water, his kingdom,
as dry land tamed, as though Mt Olympus,
the Greeks, Caesar, Rome
were now to Hebrews beholden.

------Matthew 14:22-33
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?” And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. Then those who were in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”

What Is This ???

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+-----What Is This ???

...So…impassioned before Moses
we did embellish:
in Egypt, beneath Pharaoh’s
stern gaze, his taskmasters’
whip-malice peppered with
racial slurs uncouth, Hebrews did
eat (scarred). Some days the pots
of meat were ours untainted. Indeed.
Yet mostly we peered at the
Moon hungry, its face expressionless
the way Satan’s must have been
before Adam and Eve’s quaking
looking at each other fallen. If
our masters left scraps, mold in
their pot, we like mice dashing to
refuse. But now, what is this? Each
day enough food for all falling from
the sky. Manna, Quail from our God.
The gods on the Red Sea's other
side ...never bothered.

------Exodus 16:1-15 
The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. On the sixth day they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of Egypt,  and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.” Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’” While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud. The Lord said to Moses, “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.’” That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat.

Tony Conti's Liberation; Taylor Swift's Might #taylordatetony #wcw

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+-----Tony Conti's Liberation; Taylor Swift's Might

Oh Taylor, singleness is my
heart a Hebrew man romance-aggrieved,
wriggling his taciturn beard
in a synagogue in Capernaum
loveless. Slightly convulsing,
Perseus hearing footsteps
of Medusa drawing near. Other girls’
dating refusals like an impure spirit
within censuring: “What do you
want with us, Jesus of Nazareth
[Taylor Swift of Nashville]?” But
babes, your blue eyes divine,
your beauty fitting for one Heaven
sent and Virgin Born. If you took
me to Starbucks, like an exorcism
of loneliness: “be quiet!” If we
kissed, him shaking violently,
“come out of him!!!” My memories of
dumb girls expelled like a deafening
shriek. Our smiles: like the whole town
astounded. “What is this?...
[She] gives orders to impure
spirits and they obey!”

------Mark 1:21-281 
They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out,  “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” “Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!” The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek. The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, “What is this? A new teaching—and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.” News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.

Wine, A Wedding Feast In Toronto #TonyandWall

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+-----Wine, A Wedding Feast In Toronto

John, heretofore the
Wizards’ playoff prospects-
a feast at a wedding
in Cana turned insipid. Wiz
fans like the bride and
groom troubled, gazing
pensively into the sky…musing
that wine of NBA Championship
banners has run out.
But in Toronto tonight, Scott
Brooks’s coaching like beseeching:
like a Virgin Mother imploring
you: “[John] they have no more wine”
But…the passionate play of Beal,
Gortat, Porter like servants filling
six stone jars of yearning with 30
gallons of water each. Your triple double,
a 3-2 series lead, will be the master
of Washington DC’s banquet of Sports
Fantasy drunk; Dancing, exclaiming:
“You have saved the best till now!!!”


------John 2:1-10
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside  and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”

The Game Of Thrones #IamDaniel

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+-----The Game Of Thrones; Daniel's Interpretation Of Nebuchadnezzar's Dream

Please don’t infer from
these trembling words defection;
Or disdain for the hanging
gardens draping your palace
resplendent, as if even the gods
from heaven were vassals extending
shrubs, vines in tribute. No, I have
come to adore Babylon in my own way.
Your glory as the head of pure gold
in the statue of your dreams.
Its chest, arms of silver, belly,
thighs of bronze….iron legs. Feet:
iron/clay mixed. (A portent of
erosion). But know, soon, a new King
arises, a rock cut out from the sky
…hurled to Justice's ground a mountain.
He'll destroy all you have ever known.



------Daniel 2:27-45 27 
Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come. Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you were lying in bed are these: “As Your Majesty was lying there, your mind turned to things to come, and the revealer of mysteries showed you what is going to happen. As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind. “Your Majesty looked, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay. While you were watching, a rock was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and smashed them.  Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were all broken to pieces and became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The wind swept them away without leaving a trace. But the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth. “This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold. “After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron—for iron breaks and smashes everything—and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces. “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

EDIT: Taylor Swift's Coffee Date With Tony Conti; Tangible Proof Of (Heart) Resurrection #taylordatetony #wcw

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+------Taylor Swift's Coffee Date With Tony Conti; Tangible Proof Of (Heart) Resurrection

Taylor a date with you’d be,

initially, pure incredulity; My love-

life nailed (by years’ girls’ rejections)

as to a tree on Golgotha between two

savages, its body spectacularly 

mauled (by whips, Roman-spears of 

impatient despairing). But…the steam 

of our Starbucks coffee’d rise as 

morning myst above my heart's

emptied tomb. Your smile, then, a 

miraculous entry into the locked,

shuttered room of romantic doubt.

A kiss from your soft lips (Virgin-born,

your two blue eyes two gemstones

snatched from angels in heaven at birth)

like proof of female sincerity, like me 

rubbing wounds of nails in hands, scars

of slits of spear-tips in ribs healed. 

Our shared gazing'd be my newfound 

ironclad belief in resurrection of dreams.   

 

------John 20:24-29

 Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.”Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Tony Conti and Taylor Swift; Adam and Eve In 2018 #taylordatetony #wcw

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+-----Tony Conti and  Taylor Swift; Adam and Eve In 2018

At night my heart
is as the First Man stargazing,
in Eden wonderstruck,
at constellations divine.
His back reposing on
the Tree of Life’s trunk
east of the Euphrates clutching
his side, feet dipped in gentle
tributaries, his soul aching silently
for someone to share the Moon’s
romance with. Hope a deep sleep. And
one day I yearn to wake up, one rib
snatched, to teeth bedazzling, blue eyes,
soft flesh of hands cupping my face. I’d
tell God: “This is Taylor Swift – Flesh
of my flesh. Bone of my bone”

------Genesis 2:18
The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

John Wall Glorified In Canada

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+-----John Wall  Glorified In Canada

...Beal, Gortat, Porter = Peter,
James, John - basketball
disciples ascending, with you,
the NBA playoff’s steep Mount,
Air Canada Centre. Demar Derozan,
Lowry, the Toronto Raptors…at the base
unbelieving pagans,
sycophants of Caesar, frothy-mouthed,
giddy to extend pejoratives, steal
your 2018 ring, denying who you are truly: 
Champion. But now, revelation supernal
for your team, fans, the world.
Your triple double tonight, you
suspended in air, your jersey as peasants'
robes shining brighter than the sun. When
you dunk on Demar to win the game,
the cheering of Wizards’ fans like Moses
and Elijah flanking, fawning. The God
of Basketball then boasting – “THIS
IS JOHN WALL WHOM I LOVE,
WITH HIM I AM WELL PLEASED!!!
(The Raptors will soon be eliminated)”

------Matthew 17:1-13
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There he was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light. Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters—one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah.” While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown to the ground, terrified. But Jesus came and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.” The disciples asked him, “Why then do the teachers of the law say that Elijah must come first?” Jesus replied, “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things. But I tell you, Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but have done to him everything they wished. In the same way the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands.” Then the disciples understood that he was talking to them about John the Baptist.

Destiny's Fete

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+-----Destiny's Fete; Matthew's Thoughts While Hosting A Dinner For Jesus With His Friends 

I always anticipated
a banquet of Olympus’s gods
like this: opulent, lavish…
ambrosia freely poured.
And behold us now – mortals 
albeit briefly, translated
divine; Our sins forgiven,
our craven financial plundering
met with a forgiving smile. Laughs
reverberating off pure silver
cutlery, wine vibrating within
goblets engraved with Caesar
on his horse on hind legs. A gift
from Herod. Our hands raised,
eyes closed. Cheers – to new
beginnings.


------Matthew 9:9-13
As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me,” he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

-Taylor Swift Calming The Winds And Waves Of Tony Conti's Dateless Life #taylordatetony

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+-----Taylor Swift Calming The Winds And Waves Of Tony Conti's Dateless Life

And Taylor, singleness,
prolonged, is my soul's storm
on a lake in Galilee furious.
My romantic hopes, expectations,
like 12 Hebrew disciples in a rowboat
howling, hands trembling barely
clasping hope's oars. Waves of
distress of cruel girls' dating
rejections sweeping over,
slamming into the hull to risk
drowning of all my girlfriend-dreaming.
But babes, I imagine you drifting ahead
of me, gorgeous in sleep, blue eyes
of the cherubim, your soft lips as pure
as one Virgin-Born that just charmed
multitudes on the Mount. If you
took me to Starbucks, the divine
inveigling "why are you so afraid?”
If you kissed me – serenity; All winds
and waves of my former life rebuked.
Us holding hands, my heart amazed:
“what kind of [girl] is this?!!”


------Matthew 8:23-27
Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

The Birth Of A (Revolutionary) Nation

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+-----The Birth Of A (Revolutionary) Nation; Elijah's Thoughts In The Kerith Ravine

I cant sleep through the night
anymore, a wolf in the desert
wrested from the pack. I cant
bear the deafening apoplectic shrieks,
the self flagellation of faux temple
priests of Baal with knives of ritual
on lunar festivals. Their dried blood
staining the vestibule to abutting
roads. Phantoms dashing at night-
children’s faces beseeching me
for deliverance from altar-fires.   
And I speak of Israel...not Canaan.
The consequences of this black
heart of our King apostate: no
food or water in the Kingdom. If it
weren’t for the ravens, I wouldn’t even
have bread. So the revolution begins.


------1 Kings 17:1-6
Now Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.” Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.

Jericho

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+----Jericho; The Thoughts Of Joshua Before Taking The City

I was a boy in Egypt,
I swore it was the candle
snuffed out by Mom rekindled:
a light lustrous, incandescent as
the sun, stirring me “awake.” Suddenly
I am an eagle, my arms feathered,
parting clouds before me;
Feet stiff, nails jagged, stony…
my unconscious mind plagued
with savage acts. In unrelenting circles
above prey identified vaguely.
And now, years later I march. Circling a 
city with once impregnable walls turned
timid, reticent, like a deer wounded.
The trumpets of priests sound like
swoops,whistles of an Eagle convocation.
Blood Thirsty. For our Land Promised. 

------Joshua 6:1-5
Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

The Rise Of Joshua

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+----- The Rise Of Joshua; Moses's Words To Joshua Before Dying

In Egypt when fire scrambled
down from the skies like hail,
you shivered, gazing into
my eyes,
a lion cub retreating behind
its mother, jackals hissing.
I told you then, “do not fear.” That
God will save. And since: more plagues,
a grandiose Red-Sea-rescue
from Pharaoh, miracles manifold
in the desert. Now God again calls you
forth from fear- To cross the Jordan
and conquer more Pagans, lead Israel
to repose in Canaan promised; Adam,
Eve fondling the Tree of Life
for the first time, falling asleep on
its trunk- but alone, because Im dying.


------Deuteronomy 31:1-8
Then Moses went out and spoke these words to all Israel: “I am now a hundred and twenty years old and I am no longer able to lead you. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’ The Lord your God himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will take possession of their land. Joshua also will cross over ahead of you, as the Lord said. And the Lord will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, whom he destroyed along with their land. The Lord will deliver them to you, and you must do to them all that I have commanded you. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.” Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.”

Loneliness's Passover; Taylor Swift's Coffee Date With Tony Conti #wcw #taylordatetony

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+-----Loneliness's Passover; Taylor Swift's Coffee Date With Tony Conti 

Taylor, me being single:
like Hebrews embattled,
hundreds of years' slaves to
datelessness's shackles; And cruel
girls' rejection, Egyptian
taskmasters, beards scraggly,
whips sewn with lovelorn's
bone at the tips. But babes your
smile like a lamb for each
family, a male without defect.
Your two blue eyes, their frantic
slaughter at twilight the 14th day.
If you took me to Starbucks, hands
smearing blood on the sides and tops
of doorframes. If we kissed: melancholy,
the angel with a scythe, passing over
our teas' steam- his destructive plagues
of jealousy striking Egypt's firstborn only.
A day I would forever commemorate.

------Exodus 12:1-16
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs. Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover. “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance. For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel. On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

I Have Risen

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+-----I Have Risen; Jesus' Thoughts After Leaving His Tomb

          Before I left for earth, I recall
my Father and I on Mount Zion’s
promontory. Breathing deeply,
closing our eyes. The linchpin
of our talk- Archetypes.
The snake, dangling fork-tongued,
stolid peddling perdition
from a tree, verboten to man.
Later me bloody, peddling paradise
nailed, dying, from a tree
verboten to God. And the two Eves-
one departing disgraced, the other
gracing Eden exalted. And the two
Adams – the first felled by death.
The last, conquering it
for all sinners' redeeming. I told my
Father – “yes, I will go. And yes.
I will come back for you. Victorious”

------Mark 16:1-8
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Jesus’ body. Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’” Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.