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Introduction:
Christian Citizenship
Derek Poole
Comment
Priscilla Reid
From
the Director
David Porter
Outside
the Camp
Donald Watts
Citizenship
From 'For God and His Glory Alone'
Love:
An attribute of Citizenship
Graham Cheesman
Memory
and Redemption
David J Montgomery
Holy
Nation
Lois Barrett
Grace
Healed Eyes
Steve Stockman
Negotiating
the Future
Deirdre Mullan
Book
Reviews
Alwyn Thomson and Dorothy McMillan
GRACE HEALED EYES
I saw him in
the distance
I wasn't going to get too close
You don't take any chances with leprosy
Unless you're him I suppose
He could have shouted from a distance
Said your healed and then dismissed them
But this guy went and sat among them
And before he left he kissed them
Like an angel with risky wings
In a world the world despised
He seemed to see everything different
Like he looked through grace healed eyes.
I was there right
in the middle
I was helping make up the jury
We dragged her from her iniquitous bed
With the brute force of righteous fury
And there she stood full naked
Exposed in her flesh and her sin
He said he'd come to judge the world
Let the lightning strikes begin
"He who is perfect then cast the stone"
He knew our blood and guilt would rise
Left alone, at last he looked at her
Forgave her with his grace healed eyes.
One day as last
I met him
We stared through the crowd face to face
If he was the way to eternal life
Then how could I pick my place
"Have you kept all the commandments?"
I assured him of course I had
"Sell all you have give it to the poor"
I'm telling you this man is mad
I stormed away my soul in turmoil
Like some antagonist to be defied
Yet I felt his heart yearning after me
Haunting me with his grace healed eyes.
He haunts me with his grace healed eyes.
He haunts me with his grace healed eyes.
Steve Stockman
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