The Great Reversal
Walking with the crowds,
Carried along by the pressing forward.
Each one eager to get ahead,
but each one starting the same - born as a baby and from then on
struggling towards meaning, power and influence.
Be someone,
Be remembered,
Make a big impression;
leave some indelible mark in your 3 score years and 10.
From birth, a struggle to find eternity, to burst through life
with such dazzling intensity that everyone will remember forever.
But walking the other way, pick out a route against the crowds,
a solitary figure passes me, passes all of us - all straining away innocence, to be someone and he passes us, a quiet chaos in the crowd.
Christ, eternal, omniscient, creator, beyond time, source of wisdom, and beyond petty claims of influence...
in very nature God, slips into reverse and walks back past us - away from Kingship, away from power, away from influence, away from eternity, away from wisdom, towards infancy,
Calmly stepping into the body of a tiny child.
And even as this baby grows, figuring out how to control the body he has himself designed, he still walks the other way,
realising that life cannot be found in the struggle for permanence, but in giving it up.
The great reversal subverts me. Tired of pressing forward, I realize I need to turn, for what I have been searching for has just walked past me.
originaly from http://www.vaux.net/greyspace/LitGR.htm
just arrived from a - great but also laborious - planning weekend for a 'future workshop' (Zukunftswerkstatt; Fyler hier: Download 10te_z_mailflyer.pdf) I was reading a bit further in 'The Complex Christ' by Kester Brewin and found this awesome poem which really is electrifing me in his easy but also opaque/hidden truth...
How is it going Tobi? Thinking of you often and praying for you!!!
Posted by: Gabi | Sep 14, 2005 at 10:47
Hey Gabi!
Thank you, that´s cool! I´m really fine...always 'struggling' with the fullness of life, but I really feel graciously blessed by God. He is giving me freely his peace and confidence in this thrilling life...I am very thankful to this...How are you? Regarding to your posts it´s a much more thrilling time for you...eh? I am hoping to manage it soon to write you some more details per mail...I´m serious in not wanting to share real personal stuff in the public...Godspeed!
Posted by: Tobi | Sep 19, 2005 at 19:30
Yep, it's pretty hectic. Right now I'm at home, resting before another huge wave hits... Most probably Nov and Dec I'm going to spend in prayer :) Sth big must be coming, there is so much going on... Talk later! g
Posted by: Gabi | Sep 23, 2005 at 13:01