Prisoner's Paradox

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We write

Like Paul

Out of our own imprisonment

Which 

In the end

Is what makes others

Free

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"The spirit of the Lord is upon me...to proclaim freedom to the captives."

-Luke 4:18

Saved

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I am the woman at the well

I am Mary

 I am the one caught red-handed, 

The Pharisee in me poised with stones,

Saved by Grace alone 

By The God Who Sees

 And loves anyway

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"I have loved you with an everlasting love."

-Jeremiah 31:3

Gambler

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We all play our cards

As best we can

All we're made up of,

For better and worse,

Informing each move

We sometimes play cards we desperately wish we hadn't

We despair at the cards

We did not play instead

Our hindsight a merciless taskmaster

Keeping us fettered to the futility of regret

It is not a new hand we need

 or even a new game,

But faith in The Dealer Who still holds an ace up His sleeve 

Faith in the fact,

 that when all is said and done,

 It is His hand which will play out,

His hand, which so tenderly holds us,

which also holds all the cards

And in the end,

Wins.

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"I am the Alpha and the Omega

The beginning and the end,

The first and the last,

I am He."

Revelation 22:13