February 2025 Writing – Kingdom Arts

Sacrifice

Would you give your life for someone else?
Who do soldiers give their life for: country, family, community or for their deeply held cause?
Why do lifeboat men put to sea? Is it their desire to save a human life or because they see it as their duty?
Why does a man jump into a river to save a boy and yet they both drown?
Only God knows our hearts and why we are motivated to do things sometimes without thinking.
Courage comes into play when we look death in the eye, and do it anyway because it is right and we look to God for our life.
Jesus took all our sins upon him and with his scourge, double agony was His.
Yet may we never forget the resurrection and the eternal life that we are born into.
May love be the victor and not hate. Is this an act of will? Do we choose life or death?
What is your sacrifice?

Introduction

Shefali feels strongly that Kingdom Arts reaches out and is an inspiration even when you are not there!

The following piece was written after the February meeting; when Shefali, who was not able to come, was inspired by a conversation with someone who had been there, and told her the story of Maximillian Kolbe. This inspired her thoughtful and reflective creative writing.

Take me

I am but one, and yet I am 1000,
one million, one billion, one trillion.
Take me.

I am but four.
Three who depend on me.
Please, please don’t take me.
Please spare me.

I am.
Do not take me.
I give myself.
Take me.

And therein lies the answer to our deepest hearts cry.
Do we not all have hidden ways and live in dark as well as light?
Do we not have the blood of the innocent on our hearts, minds and tongues?

I am, but four.
Children…
Spare me.

I am.
Do not take me.
I give myself.
Take me.
And with that with arms outstretched
For the million, billion and trillion,
He hung his head and died.