The Wild Olive Shoot Community


Once, there was a church that received a vision from God. They dared to do what no other church at that time had done. They grew, and spread across the nation. They called themselves the Blaze Community.

But it absorbed teachings from other groups, both Christian and Pagan. The vision became polluted. Rather than examining itself, the Blaze Community became proud and arrogant, standing alone as the true church, against all opposition.

The Blaze died to an ember as people left, fleeing tyranny, judgement, and forced austerity. Humbly, the Blaze Community leaders sought God's forgiveness and direction.

Now the community received a new vision. One of grace, love, forgiveness, and mercy. Aware that it had been given another chance by God, it renamed itself the Wild Olive Shoot Community, with the knowledge that God could pluck them out of the Cultivated Olive (the universal church) if they ever again fell away from the path to which God had called them.

Monday 27 February 2012

The Wall

I have seen you many times, Wall.
Monolithic, dark, and many storeys tall.
Made solid as granite by my fears
Of debt, doubt, disaster, and tears
But I know your secret after all these years

I used to hide, to fantasize
Dreams of dread that sleep denies
But though those fears had me so chained
Still I faced what was ordained
And dared confront what had me pained

That's when I found your secret, wall
For you are not an obstacle
At my approach you shrink and fade
At my touch you are unmade
And no longer am I so afraid
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