Love began it.
Love is how God tells it.
Love is God.
Love lights a living lantern in the dark and its gentle strength wins over every shadow.
Love is not a Thing.
So those who say ‘to know’ ‘ means ‘know about’ cannot ‘know’ Love.
Love has no atoms and no molecules, Love rates low in an ‘Enlightened’ age.
Love became human, an animal, and God.
And all who understand this themselves become all three.
Love came camping with us; by day we climbed the hills, discovering hidden lakes and unexpected views; by night we drank and talked, discovering hidden views and unexpected depths.
We have shared all this from the First Sign to the Last Supper:
Love’s lantern burns in us and we in turn must light a lamp enlightening a world which, glitter-blind, does not know Love.
Kit Widdows The poem is a version of the Prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1-14), reprinted from Fourth Witness, Kit Widdows’ novel based on John’s Gospel (to be reviewed). Kit Widdows is Master of St Thomas the Martyr Church, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a SoF Trustee.
The poem is a version of the Prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1-14), reprinted from Fourth Witness, Kit Widdows' novel based on John's Gospel (to be reviewed).