Suffering sojourners

After 1 Peter 2:21-25

We are sojourners,

strangers in this world,

sheep called back

to the shepherd, sheep

so loved that the shepherd

suffered and died for them.

We return home, and

we hold fast to the shepherd,

sharing the suffering,

the wounds, the insults,

the hurts, the rejections,

the ridicule, the scourging,

suffering because he

first suffered for us.

We are sojourners,

called to serve,

called to suffering,

suffering servants

healed, suffering

sojourners filled

with joy.

 

Photograph by Fabian Albert via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Five Things You Can Control – Jill Noble. 

 

To the Parents of Wild Ones – Melissa Edgington at Your Mom Has a Blog.