MUD

IN HIS CONSTANT DARKNESS

HE GROPED HIS WAY TO THE POOL

AIDED BY THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS

IT WAS NOT HIS NORMAL PLACE OF BUSINESS

HIS PARENTS

WOULD DELIVER HIM

TO THE TEMPLE CONFINES

WHERE HE BEGGED

FROM THE GUILTY GOING IN

THE JUSTIFIED COMING OUT

PEOPLE ANXIOUS TO PERFORM A MITZVAH

LIKE THIS PERSON

WHO HAD JUST SPOKE TO HIM

HAD SPOKEN AS IF TO AN EQUAL

THE THOUGHT WAS

THAT SALIVA

HAD HEALING PROPERTIES

SO JESUS SPAT ON THE GROUND

MADE MUD

COATED THE MAN’S EYES WITH IT

TELLING HIM

GO WASH IN THE POOL

OF SILOAM

WHICH MEANS SENT

AS JESUS WAS SENT

TO BRING LIGHT

HE PLUNGED INTO THE POOL

NOT GRACEFULLY

BUT A FULL BELLY FLOP

THEN STOOD UP

WATER STREAMING

THE MUD WASHED AWAY

SAW A FUNNY FACE

RIPPLES DISTORTING THE IMAGE

GRADUALLY THE WATER STILLED

A BEAUTIFUL IMAGE EMERGED

HE WEPT

AND PRAYED

NOW LORD

WHEN I LOOK AT THE HEAVENS

THE WORK OF YOUR FINGERS

THE MOON AND THE STARS

THAT YOU HAVE MADE

WHAT ARE WE

LITTLE ANTS

THAT YOU ARE MINDFUL OF US

YET YOU HAVE MADE US

A LITTLE LOWER THAN GOD

CROWNED US WITH GLORY AND HONOR

AND GIVEN ME A BEAUTIFUL FACE

I SHALL SERVE THIS SON OF MAN

THIS HEALER

CERTAINLY GRATEFUL FOR HIS HEALING

BUT MORE

HE SPOKE TO ME AS AN EQUAL

FRANK A VOLLMER

BASED ON A SERMON BY PASTOR MOODY