John 14:5
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Thomas - the pragmatist
The one courageous enough to ask the daft questions
“How can we know the way?”
Give us a map, Jesus
Or, at least, a diagram
Where is your 5-point plan
Your carefully worked-out schemata?
Oh, how quick we have been to fill in the gaps
To continue in the tradition of Thomas
(and NOT Jesus)
in coming up with grand plans
purporting as silver bullets
that will chart out a way
that we simply need to follow
For those of us who are weary
of such declarations and formulae
- and so many abound -
Jesus words are the perfect antidote
I AM THE WAY
Following the way of Jesus consists in
living now
with hopes and dreams
and fear and betrayal
living with death and resurrection
in our everyday
Seeing Christ present
not as a future proofing
but in the here and now
The one who shows us God
hidden in plain sight
May we look into the eyes of Jesus
present in all whom we meet today
and see the reflection of the image of God
God’s dream for the world*
Liz Crumlish 2023
(*Desmond Tutu, God has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for our Times, Rider 2005)
