Gary Edward Geraci

His Kind of Repentance

 

I’d do good to ask myself, right about

now, what it meant when the Baptist cried out

“Repent!” Shouldn’t a believer today

believe His Old Testament wrath; God

 

reigning down upon His people; until

prideful man finally repented? Pent-up

anger, skies rent, up and down, plagues spent,

war, fury and death. I can’t now know for

 

certain if, this day, we are being judged,

this way, by the very same God, whose arm

hasn’t shortened. Lord knows the world has gone

to hell as of late. I can indeed know,

 

certainly, that I can and should, with profit,

contend to repent. Always. And so

“yes,” my conscience answers, “yes indeed, in

the spirit of John,” I’d drop knees and repent.

 

Gary Edward Geraci