Poems About Church by Peter Menkin Finding Myself In Brethren In Lent... (2000) Where my self-forgetting Love is hid, I know in my clinging to the Christ, in the cleft of the rock I am unto you all hearts are open, no secrets hid. I fathom on in my mortal weakness seeking the heart again to witness my faith knowing you are all-- a Word. New life is granted us, the me of being in the following-- The master to the body that is Him, incarnate, heavenly Church. Forgive my wretched masks, my deceptions, my strengths of bojne, pride, and many wishes. (CAPTION) In 1947 two Bedouin shepherds by chance found a clay ar in a cave near Khirbet Qumran containing seven parchment scrolls. These and other finds came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, providing scholars with Jewish scriptural & religeous texts dating from the 2nd century BC. to mid-1st century AD.Caves of Qumran, Judean Desert Photo: Anonymous