Concealed in a Comma

Date added: 23/01/2024

Concealed in a Comma

Where does the common-or-garden comma

Guard the life of Christ?

In the Nicene Creed,

Between, ‘and was made man’

And, ‘was crucified for us’.

Three quarters of the Gospels

Hidden in a comma.

The grounded life of the Controversialist,

Three centuries later,

Was not dissected, divided and debated

As much as his eternal life as God,

His conception by the Virgin,

And his bodily resurrection.

Our life is hid with Christ in God:

His life – concealed in a comma.

Preaching ‘Kingdom is now’,

Healing sick with power,

Teaching crowds with parables,

Walking hills and valleys,

Contradicting sneers of scribes,

Abiding with sidelined:

Diminishing the lofty, raising the lowly.

Come on, Theologians of Nicaea,

Nineteen hundred years ago,

Expand your comma.

Have a heart and harken.

Give space to the life on earth

Of the Life of the Universe:

Intermediate time of Intermediary,

Between eternity and eternity,

Son of Man contracted to a span.

Express the compressed:

Point to the tale of the point with a tail.

Graham Kings

St Beuno’s, North Wales

11 Aug 2023