Glimpses of the Kingdom

When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

                                                                                       Mark 10:14

                                                                       All day long the Kingdom kept calling

                            with its’ soft voice saying

                   “here!” and again, 

“here!”

                And as it happens

                               in doing the mending stitch 

      of necessity

                     a loop of its splendor

                                         

                      snags your distraction

                   and you finally hear

                           the music of your broom

                                   gathering dust over the floor; 

                 a cardinal singing 

             from the skeins 

       of thickets; 

                the breezy chants

                     from the monasteries

         of the fields; 

                                 the voice of your small child

                mingling divinity,

                             

                             saying “here!” and again,

 “here!”

               in dappling light

                      hands reach through

               to help another.