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TITLE: Ships that bring Mercy | Previous Challenge Entry
By Gloria Pierre Dean
03/12/15
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"Hope and healing at every port.
In the poorest parts of Africa, children suffer and die from treatable causes"
http://www.mercyships.org/

Meticulously refashioning the scurvy limbs of a child,
Artful removing the blinding cataracts of a mother and
perfecting the face that once held a globular facial tumor;
I see hope there.

Faith and virtue extends in the hands of the medical crew
to the needy and poor after long waits for help.
A lame man now walks unaided.
I see hope in his eyes..

Mercy travels to many ports reconstructing body organs
Performing life saving surgery in lands with no resources.
and saving lives while transforming nations.
I see hope in that.

Our Messiah came as a Mercy ship two thousand years ago.
A sinless perfect Holy Man who gave up kingship for a time,
to suffer a shameful death.
Our hope lay in a cross.

By meticulously and artfully removing all our sin,
Our Father kept His promise*.
His Kingdom came; reclaiming His lost inheritance.
We now have Hope and it's Him.

*Hebrews 16:

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