With You I am Well Pleased

 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by saying, ‘I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing-fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.’

 So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people. But Herod the ruler, who had been rebuked by him because of Herodias, his brother’s wife, and because of all the evil things that Herod had done, added to them all by shutting up John in prison.

 Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized and was praying, the heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my Son, the Beloved; with you I am well pleased.’  Luke 3:15-22

Well Pleased

The Artist who created love

this divine painting of hope

the promise of being beloved

here in our saturated human form.

We are soaking wet and praying

for a ransom paid, for pain's release

we are aching for divine love

to shower us all over again.

Even the holy child, the promised

submitted to the deep waters

like us lived in this tortured flesh

like us adored by the Author of all.

Rise up from these deep waters

for the promise is on the horizon

sing the song again and expect

the life returning to failing ones.

Not conquered not thrown away

we are loved beyond measure 

our sorrows held in God's heart

we are lifted up back to light.