IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP! 

If you watched last weeks service, you heard me use the word “woke.” Some of you may have questions about what that really means so I wrote the following poem to demonstrate:

The Child Waketh: Conversations with a woke child.

Why? 
Why must I color?
 The paper white,
 My favorite color. 
Of untrod mountaintops
 and souls wiped clean 

Dipped in bleach 
 and hung out to

 dry did you know paper comes from trees? 
Did you know that trees breathe? 
 That they bleed? 
That they suffer? 
That they die?

 So that we 
 Can live inside 
their corpses piled high.
 Burn them 
 to stay warm and dry,
 to color
 by the fireside.

  … 
What’s for dinner? 
Chicken.
 Why? 

I also recommend you listen to the song “What Are You Gonna Tell Her?“ by Mickey Guyton. And see if you can answer the question. – What answers would you give the child? Why?