When Jesus told the parables, He used a word picture to “throw alongside” (the literal meaning of “parable”) a principle. The insights that He thus “incited” were created by the friction and contrast between the two elements.
Let me provide a similar service for you, dear reader. I'll give you something intended to incite your mind and spirit to creativity and deeper understandings. If any sparks fly for you, let me hear from you.
Here's a poem to incite you today:
Polyfacet
Just as He is God
Who is served by
A Spirit
Who is the faces of
Ox eagle lion man
Who is a wheel
Within a wheel
Covered by eyes
All around
I lean now
Upon His breast
Becoming with the church
Millions of ears
That lie just under
His clavicle
Straining to hear
The comfort of
His beating
Heart
–(C)2007, Latayne C. Scott
