Monday, March 31, 2014

Perichoresis

As when David danced 
Before you, shining with sweat
And every layer coming off:
Finally we are reckoning-- this 
Is the place where psalms ooze
Out, covered in blood and pus:
Religion is a nasty business
Especially the religion of
This living God, the bleeding
God who came down to partake
In scars and tears and dirty
Diapers at the Incarnation:
Meaty God, holy God, you
Know it altogether, better 
Than I know, beyond knowing
To the place of perichoresis 
Where you humbly, lovingly
Beckon me into your
Dance. 

Note: "Perichoresis" is the idea that three Persons of the Trinity abide in a kind of dancing relationship

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