Attend to your wounds,
mark your losses and
bear your scars - for each
borne wound is a win,
a sacrament mark
of survival worth
the celebrating,
worth wearing on your sleeve.
Jesus intended his wounds,
counted the cross a weight
worth bearing, not counting
his wounds a loss, but a cost
worth paying.
So, He now wears each wound,
each scar a sacrament,
a celebrated win,
because his wounds won you.
In a Belfast accent, to my ear, 'wound' is heard as 'win'. Rachel **, thank you for the prompt. See her scarred pots at rachelhoceramics.
And thank you Heather Gregg for the encouragement.