Poem for 7th Sunday after Easter John 17

As we are drawn

into the name

of God

with the same power

that created time

we are made one

With our wars

--designed in irony

--to solve conflict

we are one

With our hunger

in a world spending million

trying to look thin

we are one

In our jokes

rising from our inner fear

that point up our differences

we are one

With the power

that came to our world

to create

--and save

and to sustain we are one

Created in Your Name

Sanctified in Your Name

Sustained in Your Name

We are one

we thank you Lord

for the truth

that binds together

the many truths

--we have created

and that

We are One