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Your Will, Father!

So early
in a human life
we learn to use
our will.
"No!"
and "Want!"
come quickly
to our lips -
and so often
the struggle
between
compliance
and rebellion.

Sadly,
some have broken wills,
unable to choose,
fearful,
blindly
following.

But then
with life averse,
harsh,
unwilled,
we steel
our wills
to take
what faceless Fate
may deal.

But Jesus
was no victim
of such Fate.
He knew
his Father’s love.
He’d come
to love
a loveless race,
his life to give
in others’ place.

Not trapped
by hapless circumstance,
yet facing others’ cruel choice,
"Your will, Father!
Your will be done!"
He wills
the Father’s will.


© Peter J Blackburn 2003
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