[Luke]

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Dear Luke,

The reading came from a version of the Bible called the ‘Street Bible.’ It is available still. It also has a CD with the reading set to some music etc. I have used it during Chapel some weeks as it is a sort of web/pc sort of feel that I think sometimes communicates with the girls.

Here is the John reading.

Have a lovely Christmas.

(name withheld)



READING from John 1:



Nothing. No light, no time, no substance, no matter – the Voice was there. Before anything moved, mutated or mated, Jesus, God’s Voiced Word, was there with god from the kick-off. How come? Because Jesus, God’s Voice, is God. Before anything began, they had always been. Before there was even anywhere to be, they were there.

Jesus got the name God’s Voice because he just spoke and stuff started. From nothing to everything, sparked only by the Voice. There is nothing that does not have the phrase “Made by Jesus” stamped on it somewhere. His words were life itself, and they lit up people’s lives – his light could blast its way into the dingiest corner, and yet the people who preferred darkness still missed it.

It's a paraphrase. An absolutely terrible one.