Responding to Acts 16:9-15
Haiku of witness and welcome.
Paul has a vision:
a Macedonian man
calls, Come and help us.
We booked a passage
to Macedonia. God
wanted us to go!
We had to proclaim
the good news of God's new life.
So we went to them.
There, in Philippi
they went down to the river,
to the place of prayer.
On the Sabbath day,
They met the gathered women,
sharing God's good news.
Lydia, dealer
in purple cloth, heard Paul's words
listened eagerly.
Worshipper of God,
Lydia, asks: Baptise me!
She, and her household.
Lydia urged them:
If you judge me faithful, come,
and stay at my home.
© Ken Rookes 2025
