Not Worthy

Not Worthy

Have you ever walked through a desert

Wearing only sandals pants a hat and shirt

It doesn’t matter what you’re wearing

The sun the heat continues to keep on bearing

Imagine now trying to live off this land

With no one around to offer a hand

Your water from springs or a cactus

Your food insects probably got there’re not the fastest

This is what John the Baptist did every day

But animal skins are the clothes he wore to keep the sun away

He did have a river to baptize and drink out of I presume

Locusts with honey was the food he did consume

Even our Lord spent forty days and nights here

Tempted by the Devil whom He did not fear

But neither complained or sought comfort

No they used this hearty diversion to focus on prayer and thought

Do we two-thousand years later

Even try to live even a bit as that type of martyr

Giving up our ego clothes phones cars and stuff

Things we claim make our life not so rough

Maybe rough is what we need

To move our thinking to make us heed

John and Jesus both gave us warning

Do what God says don’t be ignoring

Maybe then  it’s worth trying to not be so worthy

Maybe it’s time to spiritually try and get our hands dirty

To give up our wants egos and desires

To do only His Will and avoid the endless fires

Amen

JFFIII 1/2/25