As we approach Advent and Christmas here is a poem from one of our ministers Joe Hasler. He has some wonderful poetry!
Coming and Becoming
Mum,
Where’re my socks?
Dad,
The tyre’s flat.
God
My life is in a mess!
I’m coming!
I’m coming!
God is always coming.
—000—
On page one.
The Spirits brooding
Over waters far from still,
Something comes
Out of nothing,
God is coming
And brings a world.
There is a bag
Full of things
That will make
a world.
It’s dropped.
Contents scattered.
And gently kneeling
Items placed
Creating order
Out of chaos
God is coming
Putting right
Misplaced pieces of this world.
Making new –
God is coming.
Making right –
Coming too.
Coming and becoming,
Making right and new.
God has always
From beginning
Been a coming
To the world.
Patriarchs,
Psalmist,
Prophets,
All shout
…..Or whisper,
‘He is coming
Coming in our world.’
—000—
Then a moment,
A Palestinian stable,
A baby there
From Mary born,
God made flesh,
A becoming,
A God incarnate child.
Another moment,
By Jordan River,
A man is there.
And Jesus with the Baptist
By the Spirit is encompassed.
God incarnate,
Shown in human flesh!
I’m coming!
I’m coming!
Gains a prefix.
The oft used words of Jesus,
‘Fear not’.
‘I’ve come
And still am coming
Becoming the Kingdom
I will live.
Fear not
I’m coming
Is the story
Even in the pages
Where death is sharp.
Even then
The Jesus leaving
Is a coming
Of new life.
—000—
‘Amen’.
Another oft used Jesus word
Is added
To the sentence.
‘Amen!’
Or ‘Yes!’
Or ‘And for me’,
Completes the message
That God brings.
‘I’m coming.
Fear not.
Amen.’
Speaks all the words
We need to hear
To make his coming
Our becoming
Eradicating fear.
Joe Hasler Advent 2015