Scandalous God – Kate Compston

Thank you, scandalous God,
for giving yourself to the world
not in the powerful and the extraordinary
but in weakness and the familiar:
in a baby; in bread and wine.

Thank you,
for offering, at journey’s end, a new beginning;
for setting, in the poverty of stable,
the richest jewel of your love;
for revealing, in a particular place,
your light for all the nations…

Thank you,
for bringing us to Bethlehem, House of Bread,
where the empty are filled,
and the filled are emptied;
where the poor find riches,
and the rich recognise their poverty;
where all who kneel and hold out their hands
are unstintingly fed.

– Kate Compston, 1990