Outside the gate

After Hebrews 13:1-19 

As the bodies of the animals

were bound outside the camp,

so, too, was his body sacrificed

outside the gate. So, we go 

outside the gate, go to him,

and we bear the reproach

he bore, the reproach 

he endured. We are with him,

outside the gate;

we are with him,

outside the city.

No city lasts except

the eternal city.

All will pass

into dust, except

the eternal city.

 

Photograph by Nikola Knezevic via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Thank God for ‘Doubting’ Thomas – poem by Malcolm Guite.

 

‘Discipleship’ is Life – T.M. Suffield at Nuakh. 

 

Rest – poem by David Whyte.

 

Snow – poem by Louis MacNeice at Rabbit Room Poetry.