Poetry

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The merely religious person is also a wonderworker, but his or hers is a wonder of a different kind altogether. Instead of changing water to wine or multiplying loaves and fish, this one changes wine to something watered down and makes food and nourishment so scarce as to produce a famine. This one makes us wonder indeed how the excitement of the encounter with the living God can be reduced to an exercise in boredom, how a “get-to’ can subtly become a “have-to” and how a privilege can secretly become a duty or an obligatory chore.

But that’s not being strengthened with ALL power, that’s not His glorious might, that’s more like just a stick or two of the dynamite, instead of the WHOLE earth-rocking load!

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