Let us hear it for the prophets!
Let us hear it for those voices crying in the wilderness
Opening up the future
Preaching the Kingdom of Heaven in the Kingdom of the
World
Let’s hear it for the prophets
Who walk unwanted into our lives
And disrupt them with the truth
Prophets are truth-tellers
Crisis makers
We want to wander along through life
Embracing our convenient lies
Those falsehoods we have all agreed to embrace
About our world, our country, our churches
Ourselves
Enter the prophets
Revealing our racism, our greed
Lamenting our neglect of the poor
Chastising us for our destruction of the planet
Our reliance on violence
All our “sins”
All those things that exist on earth
That could not, would not exist in the Kingdom of God
Telling us what we do not want to hear
Here is to the prophets
To Isaiah and Jeremiah
John the Baptizer
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Martin Luther King Jr
Dag Hammarskjold
Greta Thunberg
The times are dark
But Ah! The prophets
Shine the light on the right
Sharing inconvenient truths with those
Who do not want to hear
To us
Recalcitrant and stubborn
They come deconstructing our carefully constructed
illusions
Rooting out the root causes
Of pain and suffering
Daring us to see
To hear
To feel
To change
To die
That we might be born again
@Martin Luther King Jr day, 2023
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