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Crucified with Christ
Pauline Bouchier
Have you ever been in the well or jail with Joseph?
Wandered across the dusty wilderness for forty years
with Moses and the Israelites?
Sawn in two like Isaiah?
Lowered into the muddy cistern with Jeremiah?
Hunted down like David, a fugitive?
In the mud and mire, in the pit, the bog, the clay?
No? Then let’s not complain, but be thankful.
Have you ever flown in stark terror with Elijah hiding
from the evil Queen Jezebel, lying under a broom tree
wanting and waiting to die?
Like righteous Job less everything he had?
In the fiery furnace with Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego?
In the lion’s den with daring Daniel?
In the dark bulging belly of a fish with flighty Jonah?
No? Then let’s not complain, but be thankful.
Have you ever been scourged, stoned, shipwrecked?
Starved, alienated, exiled, thrown into prison?
The lion’s lunch, in the stocks, beheaded, burnt at the stake
with altruistic apostles and the marvelous martyrs
of yesterday, today and tomorrow?
No? Then let’s not complain, but be thankful.
Have you ever been crucified upside down with Peter?
Have you ever been a sinless one hammered to a cross?
No? Then let’s not complain, but be thankful that we
have been crucified with Christ.
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