{"id":240,"date":"2023-01-31T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=240"},"modified":"2023-01-31T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:06:16","slug":"spitting-out-the-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Spitting Out the Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sort of excited to do my new post-a-poem-every-Tuesday plan. But as I said in the last full paragraph of my first post<\/a>, no promises. (Not to make everything come back to OCD, but one of its rules is anything<\/strong> can become compulsive … so I have to pay attention to the motive\/drive behind any commitment or rhythm.)<\/em>

Anyway, I’m excited enough where I decided to do two … one here, and then this other one here<\/a>. I had two totally different type poems I was choosing from, and I thought, hey — why choose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one, “Spitting out the Fruit,” is a Bible poem; I wrote it as an “I will” action statement after reading John 8:1-11 with a friend in a Discovery Bible Study to help me reflect further on it. The other one, “More Questions,”<\/a> is a different type–more directly personal.

I don’t know if you want to read the passage first or afterwards. Some of you may be familiar with it already … again, it’s John 8:1-11.

As always, honored by any engagement whatsoever with either of them!
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