The Living Dead

The living dead trample the morning without noticing its gift

They finger flowers; pluck them like a nose-gay set adrift

The living dead, with unbowed head glorify gods of greed

With emptiness they fill but cannot satisfy their need

The living dead have never wept with wonder at God’s grace

For such a debt as sin, a perfect Jesus took our place

They inhale-exhale hunger while they seek but cannot find

What they are looking for amongst the blind leading the blind

The living dead stuff mouths with bread yet never pray or pause

To kneel upon the sod God fills with sustenance for us

The living dead walk, run, like, laugh yet never really live

Slave to the grave; ever they crave what God alone can give

© Janet Martin

Ann used the phrase ' It’s time to be tired of being the living dead.'

Am I truly alive? are you?

Ephesians 2: 1-10...

By Grace Through Faith (KJV)

¹ And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

² Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

³ Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

⁴ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

⁵ Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

⁶ And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

⁷ That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.