24 July 2022 – Sunday 17C (49C)

WHO’S THERE?
(Luke 11:1-13)
Persistent knocking,
inconvenient knocking,
disturbing our sleep.

Asylum-seekers
still in off-shore detention
knocking, still knocking.

First Nations people
yearning for voice, treaty, truth,
knocking, still knocking.

Clear-felled habitat,
flora, fauna endangered,
knocking, still knocking.

A new government
now challenged by the knocking:
how will they respond?
    Jeff Shrowder, 2022
 
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