It's a beginning

Haiku for getting wet

In Jordan’s waters

John calls folk to turn to God

and baptises them.

Leave your sin behind,

God’s kingdom is near at hand,

embrace God’s new way.

Leaving Galilee

and his quiet village life,

Jesus comes to John.

Jordan’s waters call;

Jesus comes to be baptised.

John is hesitant.

It’s a beginning,

says Jesus. Let’s do it right:

for now, baptise me.

Signs come from above,

as water pours from his brow.

A dove and a voice.

A retrospective

voice of divine approval,

from gospel writers.

In his baptism,

as in ours, the call to serve

and to live full true.

© Ken Rookes 2020