A Sonnet for Ascension by Malcom Guite

From Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year,  (Norwich, UK: Canterbury Press, 2012). This  sonnet gives voice to the imagined experience of one of the disciples gathered as Jesus ascends into the skies to be with God.  What phrase or line speaks to you? Reflect upon this while listening to the poet recites it himself.  God holds ALL we hold and is one with us, our broken-heartedness and joy!


We saw his light break through the cloud of glory
Whilst we were rooted still in time and place
As earth became a part of Heaven’s story
And heaven opened to his human face.
We saw him go and yet we were not parted
He took us with him to the heart of things
The heart that broke for all the broken-hearted
Is whole and Heaven-centred now, and sings,
Sings in the strength that rises out of weakness,
Sings through the clouds that veil him from our sight,
Whilst we ourselves become his clouds of witness
And sing the waning darkness into light,
His light in us, and ours in him concealed,
Which all creation waits to see revealed .
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