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Lent 2     John3:1-17 or Matthew 17:1-9, particularly John 3:1-9

Born again (YA No 26)

In darkness he had lived: he journeyed in the night;

Came Nicodemus to be taught some new insight;

And Jesus said to him, “To live in God’s domain,

In spirit and in truth you must be born again.”

This Pharisee was stunned; he thought he was misled;

With literal thinking could not hear what Jesus said;

He could not understand; “Such things could never be!”

But birth in Spirit gives us new identity.

Our life is then transformed when we give love free reign;

In love we live renewing life in God’s domain;

God’s spirit is within; and wishes to be heard;

Let us, as true disciples, be that sacred word.

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