plummeting to earth and devouring it in Frost's fire. Instead, what if satan's fall
happens more like Brueghel's Icarus: an unnoticed splash in a distant ocean.
What could be more befitting of the king of liars than to become the wolf who cried beast? After all,
instead of a vengeful supreme court we get a blubbering candidate painting a tale of woe
for crimes he does not want to remember if it means loss of power. So that he said/she said
becomes the blindfold on justice and darkness is the anesthesia for the loss of truth. So
many lives have been wasted on the need to be number one: both the living and the dead.
All Jesus can do is kneel and plead: "Let the first who is without sin … "
And like a laser piercing the blindfold, the word becomes searing flesh.
O to be the change Christ wants to see, amid the drip of satan's leaky has-been
Realm. And so I try to teach as he taught me: that mercy is the best gauzy mesh
we can apply to mistakes that persist to this very hour.
Pray that bandage stops our bleeding need for power.
#MeThree
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