when i least expect it

Makato Fujimura, Still Point

you are brand new to me

i lay my head on the cafe' bar top
and with fixed attention search out this splendid,
everlasting child of the living God.

I 

listen,

               listen

listen...


to the story of a broken vessel arrested by time and flight,
rescued through sacrificial love.

you resonate - 

and i, a forgetful wanderer
passing through a drowsy afternoon

am assured;

strangers are indeed turned intimate when we are known by God,
found in Christ.

i hear an echo of paul to the church at ephesis: so then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone...