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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><a href="http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/3459427547_8ce9409f2b_z1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7437" src="http://provoketive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/3459427547_8ce9409f2b_z1-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>Preface: Lately, I have been contemplating who will be in the kin-dom of God. In the Parable of the Wedding Feast (Luke 14:15-24), Jesus said that those who come are the "the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame." After reading the rest of the kin-dom parables, and watching <em>Beasts of the Southern Wild, </em>this is the poem that sprung up within me.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">God calls the lowly, the foreigner,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">the strange, widows, adulterer,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">the prostitute and the middle manager </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">working to survive</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">to rest</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">God desires the misspeller, girls playing</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">house and abused mothers, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">beggars, crusties, and the misunderstood </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">transgendered male</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">to rejoice</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">God seeks the bruised cantaloupe, the rotting </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">apples, diseased celery, God seeks overwatered broccoli</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">and beetle-bitten beans</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">to resurrect</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">God sends away the rich, the wise, the schooled, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">those who have cabinets full and four bank accounts, </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">those who house cars, who buy healthcare </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">for their pets, the middle class</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">to reject</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">God chose what is low and despised </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">in the world, things that are not,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">to reduce to </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left" align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif">no-thing things that are. 1 Corinthians 1:28</span></p>