Meditations

Jesus

 Jesus, a mother of a man
pregnant with godly love
for Yahweh of ancient Israel,
carpenter with calloused hands,
rabbi for his beloved Jews,
the corrupt, the old with dementia,
addicts, homeless & soulfully lost,
a playful magnet for children
in Nazareth & villages of Galilee,
healer of the wounded in mind
& body, a devoutly Jewish shaman
traveling spiritual geographies
beyond where others dared not go,
life-giver to those seized by death
and hope-crippled by constant fear;
the compassionate one destined
for hell on earth in his passion,
the radical features of God.