An Angel’s visitation,
a young girl’s
whispered assent,
the mythological
intersection of
divinity and humanity
breaking forth into
her young womb
into history
altering and
healing forever
humanity’s curse.
An old woman’s
dream realized,
impossibility made
possible, the
ancient promise
etched onto
Torah fulfilled
in the hearing.
Incarnation’s paradox,
Achieving life
only through death,
the vanquished
victorious in failure
crushing evil
through love.
God’s reign
ushers forth
in our midst,
his peace awaits
our whispered
assent,
our hands
wet not with
the violence
of the human
heart, but
in humility
and love.
Prophecies as
ancient as the
dust upon the
earth, Divine
promises await
a mere, “yes”,
a “be it done
to me according
to Your Word,”
and God’s peace
will reign, and
love once more
conquers hate,
for within
human impossibility
lay the possibility
of God’s love.
© 2015, The Book Of Ruth, Deacon Bob Wagner OFS
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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts.
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