May 12, 2015

THE HOUSE

All of us live in this enormous house

          high on the hill,

          a house filled

          with room

          after room

          after room.

And some of us eat and sleep

          and love and work

          and wonder

          and listen

          in those rooms.

And some of us walk the corridors

          wondering what’s going on

          inside those rooms.

And some of us get angry

          at the voices

          in the rooms below,

          waking up

          in the night

          with the barking of a dog

          or the flushing of a toilet.

And some of us play there

          with cards

          or Monopoly

          or Scrabble

          with the words of life.

And some of us feel all alone

          as in a womb

          sitting in corners,

          watching the phone,

          looking out windows,

          always waiting

          and waiting

          and waiting.

But most of us are deaf; we don’t realize

          that Jesus is standing there,

          knocking on the door, saying,

          “If anyone hears me calling

          and opens the door, I will enter

          his house and have supper with him,

          and he with me.”