Missing

After Luke 2:41-50 and Mark 11:12-17 

Returning from Passover,

they know their son is

among the group traveling

together, until they look

and can’t find him.

Panicked, they rush back,

back to Jerusalem, 

a day’s journey, and search

the city for three days. They

find him in the temple,

teaching the teachers 

by asking questions,

questions as insightful as

they are profound. They 

should have known, he

says, were to find him –

in his father’s house.

 

In twenty years, the boy

now a man is in his

Father’s house, turning

over tables, cleansing,

redeeming, still about

his Father’s business.

 

Photograph by Bertrand Borie via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

“On the Savior,” poem by Claudian (AD 370- 494) – E.J. Hutchinson at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

And all the people said…[inaudible mumble] – Simon Arscott at Gentle Reformation.

 

The Hidden Saints of Seventh-Century England – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.