A Poem a Sunday

Easter VI – A

May 28, 2017

John 17:1-11 - NRSV

Jesus Prays for His Disciples

17 After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him authority over all people,[a] to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. 5 So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

6 “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; 8 for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. 11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

Footnotes:

John 17:2 Gk flesh

As We Are One

Once upon a time:

Camelot,

knights in arms,

unicorns,

daring Dragons

swords,

wizards,

magic;

“All for one and one for all!”

One once:

The Christ,

Unity,

Spirit driven,

devoted

to the Way,

sharing in common;

daring to stand in solidarity

with the least in the land.

Reckless abandon

not calculating the cost;

taking the dark road,

seeking the lost.

Once one in devotion.

Once one in love;

no dogma, no damning,

excluding no one.

Unity – a gift;

diversity – embraced.

An example, a paradox

for the whole human race.

Believe in the magic,

the Camelot of old;

believe in the Christ-spirit

making us bold

to live out the oneness

for such myths are true

and what God imagines,

God creates for us, too.

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