While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

  • Tsunami theology

    Matthew 18.10: Do not despise one of these little ones for their angels always behold the face of my Father in heaven God together swept out by the waveNo habitation left to stand upon the earthSea swallows without commentsmoothes memory all awayThe children fathers mothers are not Once little ones quite nothing nowwaved away, Tsunami…

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  • When the magic stops, we might be getting near

    It was magic when the star appeared, Bright shining reshaped the customed sky. It was magic to research, poring over books, Speculations escalating in our talk,  Sparking vision beyond vision. It was magic when the fog cleared  And the new king’s birth appeared  As the vision’s meaning set us on our way to find him. It…

  • No Kingdom No Baby

    A remark on contemporary Christmas in England  Today we have baby But no kingdom  The baby is beautiful What baby is not? But the baby signs  Nothing now The baby signs  No gift, no hope, No kingdom Signs nothing Because for us  Self-referencing consumers There is no screen  Picking up and reflecting back The light…

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  • Tenting with Jesus

    Name Jesus, Emmanuel, which means ‘God is with us’ (Matt.1.23). But how is God with us? A clue: God became flesh and pitched his tent among us (John 1.14). Tents remind us of holiday fun and festival togetherness, but it was not all sunshine for Jesus. He had ‘nowhere to lay his head’ (Luke 9.58). He tents ‘among us’ but…

  • Shepherds of Israel 

    A Christmas meditation on Ezekiel 34 There are no shepherds  For God’s people any more There are shepherds abiding in the fields  Looking after their sheep by night But where are the shepherds of Israel? There are wheelers and dealers in a palace In Jerusalem, An upstart dynasty, dysfunctional family Tearing and devouring the people, …

  • There are many theologians in the world

    For some, there is no God. For some, God is a vague shadow around the edges of life For some, God is tremendous presence, filling life, silencing speech For some, God is found in the Bible and in the church For some, God is named the Rock, the God of Israel, For some, God is the Father…

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  • The walk to school (three poems)

    One little old lady  Little old lady Topping eighty Rucksacked Runs the roads Faster than I can (that not to say much) Towing a little old dog,  Scrawned in her image She was a regularity On our walk to school Then she was missing, One month, two This morning, Sunbright, We saw again, Summer shorts,…

  • ‘For your to-morrows these gave their to-day’: sermon for Remembrance Sunday

    Sermon preached at Moortown Baptist Church on 10th November 2024, Remembrance Sunday. The texts for the sermon are: 14 At that time David was in the stronghold, and the Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem. 15 David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” 16 So…

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