For the times you turned your face
to reflect in the silver of idols,
the glittering teeth of that which dreams
but which is not God;
for the sake of forgiving,
I let you go, so that
upon awakening you might find me
anew,
as though you never were faithless,
as though I were never lost to you.
For the hardness of your heart
bruised me, who cannot be moved
yet time and age again
reaches for you in the night.
Mark 10:2-16; Year B Proper 22. Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you.
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