Faith Like a Child

[billy]

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.

an image is great. but two of the same make one redundant, i know, i know what you're saying. <----1 too many "I knows"

i added faith as an example, you could use whatever you feel or even leave as is sadie.

When Jesus said
no one makes it
without faith like a child,
I think He meant you are telling not showing. (the image is; like a child) the same as the second image. i realize that parabolic (i think i just created anew word for; to do with a parable) poetry, or poetry about scripture has to be telly, or often it misses the point of who who said what where. often we can negate the problem by putting it in the presence tense. god may have said it;
when he said (past tense) nope, it's present tense talking past tense. the story teller could be in the now talking about god in the then.

we can say he says to mean (he says at any given point) but it's semantics and you must always do what you feel is right sadie.

lets use a non religious poem.

when dylan said
do not go gentle
into that goodnight
i think he meant all i did was tell you something.

Dylan dallied with
gentle goodies
retreaded the tyre
of old age's bicycle here i gave or tried to, an interpretation of what DT was saying. which was

Do not go gentle into that goodnight
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. jmo