God Sustainer
Word made flesh
And Wild Wind Untamed
The signs are out in the open
Earth’s groaning loud and clear
The forecasts superseded .
We are in a crisis.
Yet churches still ponder the dancing of angels on pinheads.
We wring our hands and say
with such piety
how good it will be
when finally we get round to it
when desks are clear
to hear the Voice
the poor/youth/women/Earth/ Voice-
still insulated in tokenism
still boxed up as an issue
long since screaming anyway.
We are Moses too concerned with sheep
to waste time on blazing bushes.
But things have changed.
Christ’s gone ahead of us.
The Crisis has united us
whether we like it or not
and there’s real Emergency,
even if we haven’t declared it.
The time for anger, lament, and panic is short;
the time to choose despair
or courage, hope and joy
is now.
is for our lives
for Good
with Christ incarnate in the Earth
without whom we are truly futile
with whom… who knows what?
thank God
Amen.