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What a Call

A victorious villain
in hot pursuit of Christians
hurtled down to Damascus
stopped suddenly by
shards of sky light
and an unmistakable voice
“Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”

Blinded and bewildered
Gamaliel’s student was  
led on the road of humility
through amazing adventures
of missionary zeal.

The scales that fell from
unseeing eyes
heralded a new dawn of awakening
to a perfect plan for Paul
woven by a loving God.

Inching along
step by slow step
fueled the fire of holiness
that fanned into
the Apostle to the Gentiles.

Standing on the sidewalk of life
we watch warily
as God entices and ignites
a spark with divine breath
blowing away the cinders,
till we too are ambushed
in a web of new designs
carefully crafted.

Memory like a shell
cracks open to see
the pearl of pure beauty
nestled within
“the prize of God’s upward calling*
 in Christ Jesus.”



*(Philippians 3:14)