Phillips Memorial Baptist Church
Phillips Memorial Baptist Church
565 Pontiac Avenue
Cranston, Rhode Island 02910
401-467-3300
Rev. Dr. Amy Chilton: phillipsmemorialpastor@gmail.com
Pastor Amy's Thursday Thoughts
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The Path to Easter
As I am away from the office this week, let me leave you with this poem to aid us as we travel this lenten path to Easter.
Blessings,
Pastor Amy
The Poet Thinks About the Donkey
~ Mary OliverOn the outskirts of Jerusalem
the donkey waited.
Not especially brave, or filled with understanding,
he stood and waited.
How horses, turned out into the meadow,
leap with delight!How doves, released from their cages,
clatter away, splashed with sunlight!But the donkey, tied to a tree as usual, waited.
Then he let himself be led away.
Then he let the stranger mount.
Never had he seen such crowds!
And I wonder if he at all imagined what was to happen.
Still, he was what he had always been: small, dark, obedient.
I hope, finally, he felt brave.
I hope, finally, he loved the man who rode so lightly upon him,
as he lifted one dusty hoof and stepped, as he had to, forward
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