Acts 3:1-10; Psalm 19:2-5; Gal 1:11-20; John 21:15-19

Sitting
at the beautiful gate
He comes
healer of mind
and soul
and heart
lifting us
from all our infirmities
dread and despair
the world lays upon us
bringing us
to knew life

A message poured out
the word of day
night of knowledge
to all the earth
not of human knowledge
but the Holy Spirit of God
calling us through grace
to speak the Good News
of love only
God’s love for all

Haunting words of aging
stretching out our hands
where someone else
will dress us
and lead us where we
do not want to go

What is this place
beyond the beautiful gate you call us
even as we fear it
we trust the path you lead
having known us even from our mother’s womb

Does He meet you at the beautiful gate?
When He asks if you love him what do you say?
What do you do?