Kim Rodrigues Poet Free verse

A Snippet From My Testimony

A SNIPPET FROM MY TESTIMONY

God tapped me on the shoulder:
   Did you hear this one?

         Actually I was in proximity
And I overheard:

Jesus’ mother and brothers were at the door...

Curiosity bit my ear
     Just that quick

I wanted to know more
       Boy, do His words lift

           This sorority and fraternity 
Is open to all

Bible study took my breath away
           Still does

I have had three bibles show up at my door.
You see, causality of thought burns heaven’s ears.

Because dear Jesus hears,
When YOU have ears to hear.

So just like that in the generosity 
Of a new friend,

Who’d only heard what God said
    I received my first

Full-length revelation
             And I soaked in the ink

Years later my sister remembered
The one time            I had spoken

Of my Grandmother’s red-leather,
art-infused family bible.

She brought it home from her travels —
I unwrapped the blanket covered gift.

So good is God, and then my husband,
Who has a strange family history

Received his grandmother’s too —
All the way from Germany.

He was adopted by his mother
And also into the family of God.

How good God is!
He leaves no one out.

No religiosity brings
Good tidings,

But a childlike faith —
God remembers everything.

12/6/2018

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