As I watch the parade

passing my point of view

by faith of Christ

the inverse is true.

What has passed

is ahead and history.

What's behind

is yet to come

and energizes me.

Worry of the future,

by faith, is history.

Such faith frees of

demands to see.

Guilt, shame,

the residue seen.

But now by faith,

the Word made clean.

What appears behind,

now arrives on time

as an end

to the parade

reflects sublime

what is first

seems last.

By the Word

long last.

John 1:15