01-27-2010, 07:12 AM
More or less. The child doesn't necessarily grow up. It remains a child. You, battered and bruised through the gauntlet of life are the one who has changed, all to protect your faith. And when you make it through and check on your child, it is no longer recognizable.
The past tense is because it was Jesus who said those words at a particular time in the past. He doesn't continue to say it today, even though he may be still there today.
I wanted to differentiate between the way that people usually interpret that parable and the way that I present it in this poem.
We are to be as children coming to him. But the poem is saying that the faith is the child and we are to protect it as you would protect a child.
That's why I partially feel like I'm not being preachy. I'm saying that faith is weak and unless it becomes something so unlike what it is that you cannot recognize it, it is of no good at all.
I'll try to edit more tonight.
You replaced the second small child with "faith" which is the opposite of adding an image? I had an image and you changed it to an abstraction. I'm kind of not getting what you're talking about when you say images.
The past tense is because it was Jesus who said those words at a particular time in the past. He doesn't continue to say it today, even though he may be still there today.
I wanted to differentiate between the way that people usually interpret that parable and the way that I present it in this poem.
We are to be as children coming to him. But the poem is saying that the faith is the child and we are to protect it as you would protect a child.
That's why I partially feel like I'm not being preachy. I'm saying that faith is weak and unless it becomes something so unlike what it is that you cannot recognize it, it is of no good at all.
I'll try to edit more tonight.
You replaced the second small child with "faith" which is the opposite of adding an image? I had an image and you changed it to an abstraction. I'm kind of not getting what you're talking about when you say images.