Vandaar bij deze een engelstalig 'gedicht', dat ik enkele jaren geleden gemaakt heb en vervolgens heb verwerkt in een kerstkaart. Omdat het met weinig woorden iets moois, maar ook iets werkelijk fundamenteels zegt over het leven.
Where?
The story goes that ages ago
God came down to this world.
The problem is: where can we find him today?
in cathedrals or churches,
read all the books
and all these opinions,
claiming the truth.
I think God is too big
to define him with dogma’s,
and put him in our rational box.
But sometimes
you can see flashes of light,
in the desert, in the darkness,
in the silence of the night.
In the worries and the sorrow
in the troubles and the pain.
Even behind prison walls
and in the house of death,
yeah, really, God is in this shit …
Now where are we?
Let us stand up
and recognise our Maker:
meet the strangers,
help the helpless,
have compassion,
listen to the words unspoken,
comfort and pray.
Be there!
The more you give,
the more you love,
the more you live.
Yes, I strongly believe
in a cup of water …!
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