Friday, March 26, 2021

The wolf takes control


After Acts 8:1-7

He hears the speech, a sermon
really, directed against the rulers,
among which he considers
himself, or at least their helpmate,
and he nods and smiles, giving
approval as the speaker is rocked
with stones, pummeled to death
with rocks. This will stop it,
this will stop the infection and
the disease. He will root it out,
infectious cell by infectious cell,
searching the city house to house,
finding them, ordering guards
to drag them away and confine
infectious cells to cells with bars,
cells with chains.

And the flock scatters to the winds,
seemingly blown without thought,
without direction, fleeing 
for safety, for life, finding
themselves in small towns and
minor cities, places of little
consequence. And still fired
by the holy wind, they do
the only thing they know to do:
they speak, they preach, they tell
the truth of what they know.

Photograph by Rajashree Patra via Unsplash. Used with permission.

1 comment:

Martha Jane Orlando said...

There was no stopping the spread of the Good News.
Blessings, Glynn!