Poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity

Today’s poem is Love after Love by Derek Walcott (1930-2017).

I am grateful to Richard Rohr (in his book The Universal Christ SPCK 2019) for drawing attention to this poem by the St Lucian poet Derek Walcott.

“ All of us with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord, as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image, from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.” 2 Cor 3:18

We are made in God’s image. We are to mirror God.  God looks at us.  It is a gaze of love, which tells us that we are loveable! We look back at God and reflect that love back to others. In this confusing and hardest of times let’s do what the Psalmist says: “Look to him and be radiant; so your faces shall never be ashamed.” Psalm 34:5

Tina Lamb