On a clear day,
Maybe we could try some blue sky
Thinking about nations and kings.

Partitioning the globe,
Drawing lines on a map,
Invasion, conquest, uprising:
All of these and more
Feature in the formation
Of human notions of nations.

Kings have been crowned and beheaded,
Lauded and vilified, others abdicated.
If there’s a place where the ideas of human power
Meet and are found wanting it is here,
In the nexus of kings and nations.

Longed for One,
We want you
To transform our global glories,
Our personal power trips,
Our eutopian understandings
Of our common life.

There’s a place, O King of Nations,
Where we live together differently
Because your rule makes the difference
To life lived in the communion of love.
Even so come then Lord Jesus

In our life and our believing
The love of God