Thirty Years

For thirty years
unknown, undocumented
their lives growing up, into manhood
each with a destiny, each at the River
the Jordan, at their time, ready to fulfill
each carrying a legacy, prophesy
each a part to play, in the revealing
the unfolding of the story
the story of the redeeming,
the healing of the breach, so long ago
a new age dawning, in their meeting
their lives joining again,
the voice crying in the wilderness
and the one who is to come
together, in baptism
beginning a new chapter
in the story of life

January 12, 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
and sermon title, by Reverend Peter Hey,
Wesley United Methodist Church,
Concord, NH