The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all you people of Judah, you that enter these gates to worship the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and let me dwell with you in this place. Do not trust in these deceptive words: “This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.”
For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly act justly one with another, if you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place, and if you do not go after other gods to your own hurt, then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land
that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.
Prophets
Willing to speak truth to power
Willing to call out injustice
Willing to draw attention
to the plight of those on the margins
whose voices are not heard
and whose cries go unheeded
Accomplices of Poets
who describe
and prescribe
a better way
Who put into words
a vision of inclusion
A vision in which nothing
is right side up
and where influence is found
in the least and the last
Alongside Dreamers
who remind us
that transformation is possible
for those who believe
who reimagine
a future
that is not yet
but will be.
An unholy Trinity
those three
Prophets, Poets, Dreamers,
who mark out the thresholds
and stand in gateways
and remind us of the margins
where the rejects and the outcasts
and all whom we exclude
gather together in hope
and in certainty of the knowledge
that God’s favour rests
on those who are overlooked
Prophets, Poets and Dreamers
showing us where and how
the Kingdom of God is
in every place and time.
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