Inauguration

How often do we

take the Holy One of Israel

for granted

assume he will work

according to

our ill-informed dictates?

Assumptions are easy

but they’re frequently

a mistake.

Remember the Triumphal Entry

the expectation that King Jesus

would wipe out Rome

with a mighty wave of power

and inaugurate a newer

kinder, earthly kingdom?

Of course Messiah

had something else in mind

and the crowd’s Hosannas

boisterous as they were

and smattered with blessings

merely paved the way

for disappointment.

Wailing waited

in the wings.

Assuming had blinded them

to the truth of the moment:

The triumphal entry

did not mark

the beginning of the end

for Rome

but the end of the beginning

of God’s Kingdom

one not of this world, at all

but of the heart.

So, come,

Son of The Highest

you of infinite surprises.

Take your seat

on the throne

of our lives.

Mark 11:1–11