the way

Yesterday, at our worship gathering, Mark taught about the difficult words of Jesus in John 14:6...

"Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

Kevin Reeve, who is a part of Crossings community, wrote this poem based on those words. I wanted to share it with you for two reasons: 1) its freaking good. And 2) because I am so proud, humbled, and blessed to be a part of a community of people who are so talented and so creative...and in so many different ways. And who so freely share those talents and those gifts.

Here it is...


Way
everybody wins:
anything else
an approximate grace
a synthetic
manmade
substitute
half-Truth
on the way
but not the Way

the Way
is a man
not a mantra
a direction
not an equation
transforming action
not a transaction
a methodology
not a theology
a pearl in a field
to be discovered
or passed over
underfoot
under all

this mercy
the shocking openness
the sheer availability
sometimes lost in translation
the context is crucial
intended as comfort
a farewell assurance
a promise
a weightless yoke:
love my way
it’s the new rule
superseding
engulfing
covering
all before it

mistaken as a wall
misused as a sword
misapplied as limiting
and combined
with dangerous words—
election, chosen, few—
this mercy
has disabled many
its simplicity
simply missed:
the Way
the Truth
is His life


I make videos of myself mutilating Ken dolls and Kevin writes things like this?! Man, its a good thing that our community has a variety of gifts.