A Wilderness Ministry Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

John the Baptist
was a voice crying
in the wilderness

preparing a way
for coming Jesus Christ
power of Holy Spirit

are there now
no voices crying
in the wilderness?

Is there now
no need for a ministry
like most righteous John?

God will use hands
offered even unclean hands
God will make clean.

Lost souls in wilderness
God will send nomadic shepherds
reclaiming preparing a way

angels are separating lost
sheep from among herd goats
Jesus Christ Holy Spirit

are still seeking
lost sheep bleating longing
to be rescued saved.