Poetry for Lent 1 - Malcolm Guite

Based on today's Gospel: Mark 1: 9 - 15

Daniel Bonnell, The Baptism of the Christ

The Baptism of Christ

Beginning here we glimpse the Three-in-one;

The river runs, the clouds are torn apart,

The Father speaks, the Spirit and the Son

Reveal to us the single loving heart

That beats behind the being of all things

And calls and keeps and kindles us to light.

The dove descends, the spirit soars and sings,

'You are beloved, you are my delight!'

In that swift light and life, as water spills

And streams around the Man like quickening rain,

The voice that made the universe reveals

The God in Man who makes it new again.

He calls us too, to step into that river,

To die and rise and live and love forever.

-- Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons

Listen to this poem translated into song by Canadian singer-song-writer, Steve Bell ...HERE.