Paupers to princes

After I Peter 2:9-12

We are paupers, mired

in our poverty, 

in our emptiness,

in our lack of purpose,

floundering in darkness.

And yet we are paupers

chosen, called to something

higher, far higher, called

to royalty, to holiness,

called to leave the darkness

and embrace the light, 

the marvelous light. And 

the emphasis is on “we;”

we are not alone, called

together with the others

chosen for the priesthood,

priests who have received

mercy.

 

Photograph by Annie Spratt via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

Christmas Poem – e.e. cummings at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin)

 

“The Burning Babe,” poem by Robert Southwell – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

The Thief’s Good Works – Jackson Gravitt at The Gospel Coalition.