Day 29 – Acts 8: 26-40
Elizabeth Alexander’s poem “I Believe” ends with the words “and are we not of interest to each other?” This has been a source of much reflection over the last months as we work with many non churched families in Stockton requesting baptism. In the light of this reading I offer this ..
- Interested
In One interested in us
Breathing life
Imprinted image
Providing, purposing
Co-working confidently
Giving receiving
- Interested
In movement
Gentle nudge
familiar field
Sudden shock
Unfamiliar other
Discerned, discovered, deposited
- Interested
In each other
Crossing boundaries real perceived
Whispered common words
Mysteriously musing
Echoing disparate experience
Enriching together unconformity
- Interested
In the eternal
Past presence
Future focus
Moment in time solidify
Divine unscheduled appointed
Transforming present
- Interested
Marking moment merging
Tradition creative components
Melding merging
Honouring reality
God with us
- Interested
In moving on
Always alive
Indebted
In touch
Through One
interested in us
Interested?
God in community “are we not of interest to each to each other”
by Peter Catford
Stockton-on-Tees Circuit
Superintendent