Comments on: Thursday Short Poem: Goerner’s “Redemption”

By: J.J.B

J.J.B — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:17:57 +0000

Caitriona,
Thank you! What a great metaphor!

By: Caitriona

Caitriona — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:04:49 +0000

JJB,

Recently, my husband has had a realization about a line in a song he likes, something about not looking back when you put your hands to the plow. He realized that when you put your hands to the work you are to be doing, if you look back behind you, you get off the line you’re supposed to follow, weaving a crooked furrow instead of the needed straight line.

He was suddenly able to apply it to that temptation to look back at his own past and let it pull him down. When he looks back, it causes him to have difficulty with the present. It keeps him from staying true to the line he must follow in the here and now.

Hugo, thank you for posting this poem.

By: J.J.B

J.J.B — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:50:54 +0000

Hugo,
In order to free themselves from the consequences of sin, Lot and his family just had to have faith.__Lot’s wife is full of self doubt, and so she turns to look back on the past.__This is a really great example of God offering a new beginning, and man’s inability to see it as such.

You’re right, a great example of redemption!

Thank you for providing this great poetry every Thu…..We love it!