On to maturity

After Hebrews 5:11-6:12 

Unplug your ears,

open your eyes,

unchain your hearts.

Don’t cling to milk,

the food of newborns,

but leave the food

to newborns.

On to maturity:

now is the time

for solid food.

Now is the time

for solid growth.

Now is the time

to sow, to reap,

to produce a crop

that sustains,

to produce a crop 

that nourishes, 

to produce a crop

useful for those

for whom it’s grown,

for whom the seed’s

been given.

 

Photograph by Hui Sang via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

The Same Person in Every Room – Seth Lewis.

 

Encounters with the Counter-Cultural Power of Silence – Thomas Hibbs & Mollie Moore at Church Life Journal.

 

The Fear is Where You Begin – poem by Andy Patton at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

The Christian Response to Cultural Catastrophe – Casey McCall at Remembrance of Former Days.

 

Dark Enchantment – N.S. Lyons at First Things Magazine reviews Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come by John Daniel Davidson.