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A Body You Have Prepared

from Wheat and Wine by Devon Kelly

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For as long as I can remember
The streets have run with blood.
It runs through our roads like a river
Mixing with all of our mud.

After all of the lambs that we've slaughtered
You seem only farther away.
Our atonements and sprinklings are outward;
All our guilt and our burdens still stay

And hang
Like the curtain of scarlet and purple and blue
Covering you.

"Give me a body!" you cried.
"Open your body," the Father replied.
So you opened it wide.

Without lifeblood there is no forgiveness
So he sent you with sapphire veins.
The Word became flesh dwelt among us
To buy what our bulls' blood can't gain.

Here
Is a word that is generous, flawless, and true
Spoken by you.

"Give me a body!" you cried.
"Open your body," the Father replied.
So you opened it wide.

Your blood rushes down in a river.
I will sit with a cup at your feet
To collect for my thirsty soul water
And drink of the purest spring, fresh and so sweet.

Here
Is a sacrifice precious, sufficient, and true,
Worthy of you.

"Give me a body!" you cried.
"Open your body," the Father replied.
So you opened it wide.

May I pass through your wide open body
As we passed through the red parted sea
To the seat of your mercy so bloody
And drown in your deep, deep, deep, deep love for me

And be
Hidden in scarlet and purple and blue
Woven into you.

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from Wheat and Wine, released January 13, 2019

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