photo by Simon & His Camera
Today
Many of us live
A nation of strangers
Aliens in cities,
Trapped in societies
Of rapid, social change.
Constantly
We face new problems
With no clear answers.
It’s not happened
To us before.
Nobody’s behaved like that before.
We’ve got no tailor-made pattern.
It’s an itsy-bitsy life.
Let’s be quite clear,
No comprehensive lifestyles
No grand, universal designs
Let’s not look for them.
Rather
Let’s get clear the tension
Between heaven and earth,
Between our visions
Of God and the earth,
And the tension
Of fidelity to both.
And in the tension
Pray.
Jon Kuhrt has worked with people affected by homelessness and poverty for 25 years. He is a former CEO of West London Mission and is now a government adviser focusing on how faith and community groups address rough sleeping. He lives with his wife and three children in Streatham, south London. He likes football...but loves cricket.
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Love this (both poem and photo). You may also like this photo-blog-post: http://rojnut.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/sunflowers/
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