Property of Christ

I am Christ's,


            and I've had


                       the encounters

 
                                         (not for the easily daunted)*


                                                                            to prove it --



                                              But this is another poem or essay

                                                       for a later time.



*As the New Testament states:

"All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution"
                       (II Timothy 3:12)


And Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (page 157):

"It is a great thing to be found worthy to suffer for Christ, Truth."