Signs and wonders

After Acts 5:12-16

What is rare becomes

commonplace, 

signs and wonders

done among the people,

the people joined

together in one place.

It is a spectacle,

inspiring amazement

and fear and awe;

reverence and reticence;

multitudes join and

multitudes hold back, 

casting nervous eyes

at the rulers and elites

watching for a whiff

of disloyalty and

insurrection.

But multitudes come,

adding to the rising

of belief, the word

of signs and wonders

spreading outward.

People hear and people

carry the sick and ill

and diseased and lay 

them on beds and mats,

hoping that even

the shadow of the healers

would fall on them,

touch them, heal them.

And they are healed,

multiplying the evidence

of signs and wonders.

Photograph by Sorasak via Unsplash. Used with permission.