November 17–23 ❘ Glossary

Glossary

Zion:
rolling green hills bought
for a price, waiting still
to be redeemed;
the clean; the worthy;
the pure in heart, yet
not all

Saints:
just people who are
(1) ecstatic with hope
(2) torn by trial
(3) riddled with sin
(4) purified by fire

Neighbor:
one whose children played
with yours in town, but
who with the mob now
kicks in your door at midnight

Persecuted:
to scrape pine tar and blood-
specked feathers from raw,
naked skin shedding
blistered top layer

Expelled:
to sit on the riverbank wrapped
in sheets of rain and curling
smoke amidst gutted innards
of your former home; to scramble
from fire to fire seeking lost family

Prophet:
one who worries over the future
but sees only as far ahead
as God appoints; child
who trusts his Father’s call
and walks forward into the dark

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