by Marcia Mount Shoop
Luke 9:28-43a
from Transfiguration: A Proclamation Poem
“Transfigured lives
Cannot begrudge
Grief
Forgoing heartbreak for
Architecture that soothes
Briefly.
Joy may be fleeting
Hearts beating and
Meeting ourselves
Coming and seeking
There is no such thing
As belovedness
Without hearts broken and bleeding
No luminescent visage
Without the frothing
The shrieking
Your torment
Is no deviation
Or deviance
But it is honest
to God
True, you transfigured as new”
Watch the full GCPC service on 2/27/22 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 34:42)