Thursday 6 October 2011

To Follow. To Serve.

[First published on www.bigbible.org.uk on 6th October]




Those first young people. The pioneers.

The apostles.

Building super highways in an unknown sky.

Leaving partners and children in their snug homes with a kiss and a
promise to return.

Roaring into the clouds to battle wind and stars.

Their safety systems built of brain

and heart.

They landed where there were no lights.

Transforming strange names from tall tales into pictures on postcards
home.

And those next people who travelled further, faster, higher than any in
history

And the ones after them travelling further than anyone in history

Who skimmed the edge of space

Skimmed the edge of heaven

Of dreams

And we follow them up there.

To live by an unbreakable promise

To same four word stitched into every uniform, of every disciple who
follows their call.



To follow. To serve.

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