NAS Prompt 5\u00a0\u00a0 Peter, years later, receiving his last meal from a guard<\/p>\n
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The Guard says:\u00a0 Here, (as he slams the bowl of over-aged olives down)<\/p>\n
Your friends are telling people all around that you CHOSE the upside down cross.<\/p>\n
You follow a dead fool and you choose like a fool.<\/p>\n
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I am much worse than a fool.<\/p>\n
A fool at least stays true to one thought, crazy as it may be.<\/p>\n
I was a cowardly liar — just once, but it haunts me forever.<\/p>\n
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The Guard says:\u00a0 Yeah,\u00a0 Marcus told us how you denied you knew him,<\/p>\n
but we have you now.\u00a0\u00a0 You get to die the same pathetic death.<\/p>\n
That’s going to prove something.\u00a0 (snickering as he walks away from such a fool)<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Thanks, God, for this food to quiet an empty stomach!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why did I lie?<\/p>\n
Jesus forgave me — he found ordinary guys, not a single prince amongst us,<\/p>\n
watched us fail to listen,\u00a0 watched us worry about who was first,<\/p>\n
watched me lie 3 TIMES, He never lied to us, yet he gave me another chance.<\/p>\n
How did he care enough to trust US to keep on teaching the world his better way?<\/p>\n
How can I do this?\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, thanks for coming, Jesus!\u00a0 You came to help me?\u00a0 Of course.<\/p>\n
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By Nancy Ann Smith — an imaginary play of how it might have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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