A TIME BEFORE THE SNAKE [M, 11-13-23]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter—A TIME BEFORE THE SNAKE [M, 11-13-23]

 

There was a time

before the snake…

 

            And do not discount the snake

                        It is not innocent

                                    claiming to be only an image in a story

                                    saying, “I gotta be me.”

                                    No one ever says “I gotta be me”

                                    to explain good behavior

            No, it had its choices

            and it chose evil

            not just for itself

                        that would be bad enough

            but for everyone

            all the innocent little

boys and girls

who would wake up, grown up

and find themselves

            east of Eden

and in finding themselves there

would know in the finding

            their lostness

 

Anyway, as I said

            there was a time

            before the snake…

 

John Robert McFarland