<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Salvation</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">By what are you saved? And how?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Saved like a bit of string,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">tucked away in a drawer?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Saved like a child rushed from</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">a burning building, already</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">singed and coughing smoke?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Or are you salvaged</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">like a car part -- the one good door</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">when the rest is wrecked?</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Do you believe me when I say </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">you are neither salvaged nor saved,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">but salved, anointed by gentle hands</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">where you are most tender?</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Haven't you seen</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">the way snow curls down</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">like a fresh sheet, how it</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">covers everything,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">makes everything</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">beautiful, without exception?</div><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Lynn Ungar</div></div></body></html>