shadows and poetry.

I have a new hero this evening. 

a hero that inspired, encouraged and somehow seemed to give answers to questions I’m not sure I had put into complete sentences.   he talked about death.   not as we (church) included have made it to be but death as it really is.  death in the context of resurrection and the context of the hope that is to come.  

I of course frantically took notes. 

But what I remember most (without looking at my notes) of what this Anglican Bishop from Durham had to say… 

You are but a shadow of the future you.   

I am only a shadow of who I will be.  

Now that brings tears to my eyes.

But if that wasn’t enough.  

Bishop Wright taught me that I am God’s poiema.   (Eph 2:10) 

God’s workmanship, God’s piece of art, God’s handiwork, God’s creative expression. 

I am God’s poem. 

I am His song.  

and that means that I, Sally Chambers, express God’s heart.