Dead and Alive

I once heard a story

About a widow

Whose husband

Was still alive

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He hadn’t died

Like dead

But his mind

Stopped

Thinking

And he was paralyzed

Quiet

Numb

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The widow

Wasn’t having none

Of her husband’s mind

Gone dead and quiet

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She started asking

Questions

And he started to respond

Awakened

Something

In

Him

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The more she asked

The more he answered

The more she asked

The more he transformed

The more she asked

The more he awakened

The more she asked

The more he became

The more she asked

The more he loved

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The widow never widowed

And the husband became

Alive

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His heart reawakened

His mind transformed

His soul forever changed

He never stayed the same

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God searches the deep things of the heart. He is asking us, “Will we die and surrender everything to follow Him?” Sometimes we answer but we don’t transform or fully wake up. He continues asking and searching us for complete surrender. The more we respond, the more we start to see our lives transformed. Our desires turn to Him instead of to the dead things of our will, our understanding, and our strength. His love makes us alive and we are never the same.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” -Galatians 2:20