Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Re-Brand Us

Amazing poem by Walter Bruggemann....my latest-greatest-theologian-super-hero.

Wanted to share it with you.

You mark us with water,
You scar us with your name,
You brand us with your vision,
and we ponder our baptism, your water,
your name,
your vision.

While we ponder, we are otherwise branded.
Our imagination is consumed by other brands,
- winning with Nike,
- pausing with Coca-Cola,
- knowing and controlling with Microsoft.

Re-brand us,

transform our minds,
renew our imagination,
that we may be more fully who we are marked
and hoped to be,
we pray with candor and courage. Amen.