Unprepared: An Easter Poem

Unprepared: An Easter Poem

Unprepared   Holy week arrives againPalm SundayThe triumphant entry, on a donkeyInstead of a charging horseTo a city unprepared.Our Servant KingCaused quite a stir on MondayDriving out the money lendersFrom a temple unprepared.Thursday, last supperA sacrament...
Unprepared: An Easter Poem

Dot-to-Dot

I vividly remember as a child loving dot-to-dot books. At first glance the page would just look like a series of dots with numbers beside them, but if you joined the dots and followed the numbers a picture would start to emerge. Inspired by the Spirit, the gospel...
Unprepared: An Easter Poem

Dust and Water

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. As I write on Wednesday, Christians across the globe are having the cross smeared in ashes on their foreheads as Lent begins. For those of us in the more quirky, informal branches of God’s family, Lent can appear to be a depressing season...