In my Father's house

Haiku of the Way

In my Father’s house

there are rooms for all of you;

put your trust in me.

I go on ahead

to prepare a place for you.

You will be with me.

Lord we do not know

where it is you’re going to;

What will be the way?

Friends, I am the way;

truth and life are found in me.

Come, meet my Father.

Show us the Father!

I’ve been with you all this time,

and you still don’t know?

Whoever sees me

sees the Father. My words and

works are from him.

Those who trust in me

will continue what I do,

even greater things!

© Ken Rookes 2020

Show us the Father

Haiku for the family

Jesus is the way,

the gospel promises us,

to abundant life.

An image of home;

this house with its many rooms.

There we are welcomed.

He spoke. Be at peace;

don't let your hearts be troubled.

Your place is with me.

Live with faith, he said.

Trust in my words; they are true.

Find yourself in God.

Show us the Father,

then we will be satisfied.

Look at me, he said.

There's work to be done,

God's work, mine; they are the same.

You will do it too.

This, then, is glory:

together doing the work
God gives to us all.

© Ken Rookes 2017

The house with many rooms

 

At home
in the house with many rooms;
the writer of the fourth gospel
crafts a joyous and welcoming picture
of oneness with God,
(however she/he is conceived).
An image of the hereafter?
Perhaps; I used to read it that way.

At home
in a God who is called love,
and with a God at home in us.
At one with creation, generous and true,
woven into and emerging from
the dusty fibre of our fragile planet.
There may be life somewhere else,
but we do not know it.
United into the great body of humankind,
one with our neighbours, our sisters and brothers.
One in faith, one in doubt;
joined together in the shared pain,
the struggles, the tears and the fear.
Hoping anyway.

At home
in this house with many rooms;
but not quite.


© Ken Rookes 2014