Backward and forward

After Hebrews 11:22 and Genesis 50:15-26 

He looks backward

and forward, there 

at the end of his life.

It is important

to remind his family

and the people from

where they came. He’d

arrived a slave; he became

a near-king, wielding

unimaginable power.

The refuge would become

a prison; they’d slip

into slavery, quietly,

until freedom arrived. He

reminds them, when they’d

leave, to take his bones

with them, to be buried

in the land promised.

 

Photograph by ccd20 via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

A Selection of New Songs for Christians – Tim Challies.

 

Live for Days You Will Not See – Scott Hubbard at Desiring God.

 

Just a glimpse – poem by Joy Lenton at Poetry Joy.