Thought for today
The Fool with nowhere to lay his head
Came out of nowhere
Giving away all he hadn’t got
And making people rich, whole,
Saved and satisfied,
The Fool who prayed on the hill
The Fool who came down from the hill
Chose a crew of oddballs and
Made them into cannonballs
For his salvo of grace,
The Fool who taught on the hill.
The Fool pushed onto the hill
By the people he scandalised in church,
Walked calmly down through them and
Continued with wisdom,
The Fool on the hill whose time had not yet come.
The Fool who died on the hill,
Betrayed, degraded and deserted,
Too foolish in life to disclose his meaning,
A folly confounding this world’s wisdom,
The Fool who conquered on the hill.
The Fool who bestrode the hill
In unprecedented glory,
Bestowing his colossal riches
On those who would receive him,
The Fool ascending the hill
To the Father’s eternal glory.
(David Grieve)