Now and Not Yet: Part II

Happy Easter, friends.

If you’ve read much of the blog at all, you know already that I like to write poetry as a way of observing different seasons in the church calendar. Poetry is, among other things, an exercise in spiritual meditation for me. That’s why my upcoming poetry book, Songs in the Gate: Poems from the Borderland of Now and Not Yet, contains three Advent cycles, a section of Holy Sonnets, and some individual poems for Epiphany, Lent, and Easter.

Hence, ’twas only natural...