Sunday, February 17, 2019

Sodom Burning


* Spirit of Jesus pray for me
* Moses, Abraham, Holy Church pray for me
* Saints pray for me
*  Dedicated to Jesus Christ

+------Sodom Burning; The Words The Angels Spoke To Lot As They Carried Him Away To Safety

We…must go. Stitch
together, still trembling, whatever
memories you can of your old
life waning; In fire, brimstone,
sulfur burning-  a hare fleeing
the rising moon, sidestepping
talons of night-owl-swoops,
his eyes orange, wings
outstretched whispering varied
incantations of “murder.” For
a destiny, grandiose, beckons
you, all Abraham’s seed, away
from opulence. Come, heed
the secret of angels: Sodom,
Gomorrah, this earth
as you now know it…can
never be Man’s home. Your hearts
were designed restive.
You will keep running (from chaos)
until you get back to Eden. 

------Genesis 19:15-26
With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.” When he hesitated, the men grasped his hand and the hands of his wife and of his two daughters and led them safely out of the city, for the Lord was merciful to them. As soon as they had brought them out, one of them said, “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” But Lot said to them, “No, my lords, please! Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die. Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”
He said to him, “Very well, I will grant this request too; I will not overthrow the town you speak of. But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.) By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land. But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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