Before the Wilderness

Before his time, tempted in the wilderness
a baptism like no other
a shaft of light, an opening of heaven
torn open at his dying to self
rising out of the depths,
rising clean, washed
seeing, himself, a glimpse of heaven
feeling the weight, as if a dove,
the Spirit descended from above
anointed, commissioned to serve,
by the very voice of God
a blessing for the son from above

January 10, 2009
Mark 1:4-11
Mark 1:12-13
Acts 19:1-7
and sermon, “Child of God”,
by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, January 11, 2009,
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH