wordsout by godfrey rust
The
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Nearly
two hundred million years ago
a megalosaurus waded in the swamps
of
Hammersmith, its tiny brain
untroubled by thoughts of God, who no doubt looked
as
lovingly upon him as later
with tenderness he would watch over simple,
savage
men at Easter Island or Stonehenge, their
short lives
broken on the megaliths of their deeply held
untruths—
for
them
it was not the kairos, the right time,
and no doubt they will be judged by their lights
in
the
folly of their generations
by this curious, demanding, secret God
who
gazes
down from somewhere as his universe
expands hopefully to meet him.
Easter Island Home of hundreds of ancient stone statues.
kairos New Testament Greek for “the right time” or “the appointed time”.
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