All changes

After I Samuel 16:1-13 

It seems that all

is well, a surface

of calm and continuity.

But all is changed;

the light has passed

from one to another.

The prophet is told

to go to a new one,

newly anointed,

a mission fraught

with fear, fraught

with uncertainty.

But he goes, down

to Bethlehem,

the city where

it will all begin,

the anointing and

ushering in of

a new king. When 

this prophet is

tasked, this prophet

obeys.

 

Photograph by Niklas Ohlrigge via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

The Hand – poem by Marly Youmans at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin).

 

4 Aspects of Being Made in God’s Image – D. Eaton at Fight of Faith.

 

Reversing Babel – poem by Cynthia Erlandson at Society of Classical Poets.

 

Lewis the Prophet – Rhys Laverty at The Critic Magazine.

 

Thomas Onwhyn’s London – Spitalfields Life.