Poem for the Sunday After Ascension Day (Clamped in the Feet of Christ!)

This week’s poem is Refugees by Brian Bilston. Follow the link to read it and please make sure you read the poem both top to bottom, and then from bottom to top!

Poets are good at helping us see things in new and unexpected ways. 

Jesus frequently turned the way we look at things upside down. The Kingdom that Jesus is bringing in under our very noses is full of surprises. In this time between the Ascension and Pentecost we open ourselves to a renewing of God’s Spirit  and pray that the Holy Spirit will open our eyes so we begin to see as Christ sees.            

Rowan Williams, preaching in Coventry Cathedral, pointed us to the little figure of the human between the feet of the huge figure of Christ on the tapestry.  He said: this is where we stand, clamped between His feet.  Looking in the direction He is looking. Looking at the history of a world that has been scarred and wrecked by all manner of greed; all manner of evil and atrocity. Looking with His witnesses and His servants. Looking in His own light at the past of humanity, and drawing it together in a new light; in a new creation.

From that place of safety and of vision let’s pray to see as Christ sees: 

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy will be done.                                                                                                      

-Tina Lamb