Ambassador

(St Paul, stained glass panel 1250-60, Munster Landesmuseum, Munster, Germany - found here)

Though my position is disguised

by my ordinary appearance

I am a diplomat

of the King of Kings.

Though my embassy is a simple house

on an obscure street

it is a dispatch station for communiqués

from the Lord of the Universe.

Though I have lived in this land all my life

and furloughs are never granted

my real citizenship is in another place

and someday I shall be called home.

Until then I remain

an Ambassador of the Kingdom of Heaven

proclaiming to hungry, thirsty, bruised and broken

“Asylum-seekers welcome!”

~Violet Nesdoly (from Poems For Ephesians: Poems inspired by Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians)