The ones who came after

After John 17:20-24

The ones who came after

the ones not here but

separated by time and

space and culture and

history, theses ones, too,

an odd thing to pray for,

but they too are the past

the present the future

one body, a unity

transcending time just as

he transcends space

and distance, eras and ages.

The unity is always there,

even when it’s not.

The future is always pulled

into now, joining the past,

fused into now.

“The faith and the love

and the hope are all

in the waiting” – T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets

Photograph by Nona Lohr via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.