By Andrea Munroe
Cross Word
I used to think faith was too easy.
I solved puzzles in my sleep.
Youth leader saved at 17?
Ha! Head start!
Try 5 on for size
Abraham sacrificing his kid?
Pshh.
I was eight.
Mommy took away my ice cream
Sounded easy enough
I gave up my stuffed animals for Lent
That’s 64 things to your 1
My friends were already Christian
(except the gal at swim practice
but I ran out of time
Forgive and forget!)
Free ride faith
Hall pass from on High
An expert at 12.
Fill in blanks of sermon notes
Weekly crossword puzzle
32 Across
Laughter
6 Letters
Pshh.
Heard this all my life
I’ll doodle the church logo
to make it through to lunch.
Catch me, 16
anxious
There must be something more
Survivor’s guilt?
My grass was too green
My dad wasn’t dead
a matter of time?
When would God give me keys
to his big kingdom truck
by giving me tragedy to test me?
I was too good.
Gimme a challenge puzzle
Or does He think I’m not ready?
One day, I asked the Pharisees a question
My own voice gave the answer.
When did I PhD in law
and trade my soul?
Prodigal’s brother caught too much heat.
I’m a great person!
See?
16 Down
Sodom, Gomorrah
9 Letters.
Brimstone!
One day, I meet my rival
the tax collector
Put down my picket
that says my God hates her
Because I solved this puzzle
and She got the prize.
What?
I solved the puzzle!
She got a prize?
God came to the servant that righteous Abraham drove away
She knew the puzzle judge
I knew only how to judge
She asked for help;
she struggled and sought
I looked up my musings
on BibleHateway.com
I followed the references my puzzlers provided
I missed the point
and I got some things wrong.
Cascading answers
wrong
wrong
wrong
Count me in the ranks with Paul
who discovered too late
he chose the wrong cipher.
What’s the point of a crossword
Without the Word on the Cross?
Andrea Munroe is a sophomore physics major. She names inanimate objects after mathematicians and collects stickers to celebrate half birthdays. She also loves to write in cursive (so she can actually read her handwriting).