2 Kings 4:1-7

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    I decided to make a poem based on a passage of scripture. I love trying new things and I think this one paid off. I really might make more, I think. I really ought to make more.

    2 Kings 4:1-7

     What's to ask the oil jar,
    When trouble comes like death
    And in the bottom of the glass
    There's toil in emptiness
    To sell thy kin is only choice
    But faith is work sincere
    To risk a loss so greater still
    When grace just isn't there
    So gather jars, he says to her
    Who on her heart is pleaded
    And community is offered up
    As jars is all that's needed
    A jar is but an empty thing
    Yet so many gave and wondered
    And like her faith, pervaded full
    When one became a hundred
    Sell, he said, those empty jars
    For all those jars are full
    An empty debt brings only death
    But the Lord o'r flows the soul.

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    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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