December 27. 2017

THE GOSPEL OF JOHN

In the beginning - page one of this scroll -

the choice is proclaimed: "Will I accept 
these words - as well as the Word - to

become flesh and dwell within us?"

Water, wind, bread, wine, light, night,

helping me the reader to soar,

to see with eagle eye from on high,

what I’m not seeing here down below ….

Wheat becoming bread becoming body,

water becoming wine becoming blood,

healing at pools, eyes beginning to see,

lakes filled with fish, Lazarus returning ….

To meet Jesus at noon at the well,

to thirst for and then to taste living water;

to meet Jesus in the night - in the dark -

to be Nicodemus and not Judas.

To drop rocks, to have supper with him, 
to have feet washed, to hear the new

commandment, to remain in his love, to die,

and then to rise to have breakfast with him.

© Andy Costello, Reflections  2017

Feast of Saint John the Gospel Writer

December 27