<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521655" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Baptism</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I walked down from Nazareth with the crowd, <br>nudged on by their excited chatter<br>and rumors of a crazy man by the river<br>shouting God at sinners, <br>thrusting them into the Jordan<br>like so much dirty laundry<br>to be rinsed clean and pure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These are my people, <br>hungry people<br>seeking new wine and<br>new bread, lepers<br>yearning to be cured, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But deep within me<br>silence grows, <br>and somehow I know <br>that I am closer to Home, <br>though so far away <br>from my father's workshop<br>and my mother's kitchen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When John sees me<br>he takes my hands and gently <br>pushes my face into the stream <br>befouled with the sins <br>of the people...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I cannot see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I struggle <br>to rise and breathe, <br>from this watery death <br>I want to be free, <br>and as I break through<br>I see His fire, I hear<br>His voice like a flash of wings<br>falling down on me, <br>calling me His Beloved Son, <br>telling the stunned crowd<br>to listen to everything<br>I will say, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but frightened, <br>I hurry away, <br>into the empty desert <br>to stray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Steven+Federle">Steven Federle</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=521655" data-title="The Baptism de Steven Federle" data-description="I walked down from Nazareth with the crowd, nudged on by their excited chatter and rumors of a crazy man by the river shouting God at sinners, thrusting them into the Jordan like so much dirty laundry to be rinsed clean and pure. These are my p..."></div> </div> </div>

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