Dust Shaker (Mark 6:1-13)

      dust shaker

unmoved
by the cries
of the poor,
   shake the dust
   out of our ears
      so we can listen;

uncompassionate
to the brokenness
of our own king,
   shake the dust
   off our hearts
      so we can give them
            away;

callous
towards those
different from us,
   shake the dust
   from our souls
      so we may embrace them;

amassed
by years of hoarding,
   shake the dust
   off our nest eggs of
            blessing,
      so we may offer grace
      to the hopeless;

shake the dust
off our unbelief,
Son of Mary,
   so the gospel
   might be lived in
            us.

(c) Thom M. Shuman

Thom