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| "A DIFFERENT WAY TO CHOOSE LEADERS" by Carol Duerksen | |||||||||||||||
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YOUTH GROUP LESSON 55
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| 6 Ask a girl to read the following poem dramatically: Lord, I don’t understand where My yes will lead. I only know I must say it. The winter is cold, The night is dark. There is no Star of Bethlehem to guide me On the Kansas prairies, But the memory of Mary blazes A trail through my heart, And the ever-living Christ child is born afresh. She was about my age When she said her Yes that changed the world. How I long to say a yes that will also change my world. In the fear, the frailty, the faults |
Of myself and others, A faithless no beckons me to speak, But I refuse. There is loveliness in a yes That is frail and yet fearless In the face of so much uncertainty. I do not hope to be called blessed as Mary, And yet in my willingness to pray To the one light of love In the endless abyss I feel your blessing— Warming my cold, Bringing royalty to my rough places, Becoming simple presence in complex mystery, Making a young girl hopeful Shaping out of this prayer a blessed peace. —By Laurie Oswald Robinson |
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