TEMPTED TO RUSH
(Mark 1:9-15)
Pressed by the Spirit
alone and yet not alone
in the wilderness.
Tempter, beasts, angels:
Jesus’ ministry, begun
in the wilderness.
Perhaps we regard
Mark’s a gospel full of tweets,
but danger lies there.
We rush on, thinking
too little of two verses
in the wilderness.
Jeff Shrowder, 2018
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