A measure of kindness

After Galatians 5:22-23 and 2 Samuel 9:1-7 

Summoned, he thinks,

to his condemnation

and death, he learns

instead that lands

are to be restored,

position is to be

restored, honor is

to be paid. Instead

of condemnation

and death, he’s been

summoned to honor,

summoned to life.

Kindness to a man

changed his life;

kindness to people

transforms empires.

 

It is a picture, a photograph:

summoned to expected

death, we instead

have been summoned

to life.

 

Photograph by Andrea Tummons via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Back When We Had Friends – Greg Morse at Desiring God.

 

“Air and Angels,” poem by John Donne – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

“Thus with the year, seasons return” – Anthony Esolen at Word and Song.

 

I Used to Race the Sun – Henry Lewis at Story Warren.

 

Hallowed Be Thy App – Madeleine Kearns at The Free Press.

 

The Prayer Without Ceasing – Dwight Torkington at The Imaginative Conservative.