My #EasterArt post this morning was "The Incredulity of St. Thomas" by Caravaggio, a favourite painting of mine illustrating a favourite story. From many pulpits this morning Thomas will have been relieved of the traditional stinging soubrique of "Doubting". I perhaps would have said similar things myself had I been preaching, but I wasn't so instead I offer this brief reflection.
(My friend Jim Deeds has offered his own doubting dialogue with God on his website, illustrated by the same Caravaggio painting.)
God
there are times
I want to poke you
In the side
Like Thomas did
With your recently dead son
To see if you are alive
Or to waken you up
Because sometimes it seems
Like you’re not there
Like you don’t care
Like things aren’t fair
It was Thomas who was missing
When Jesus first turned up
But there are times
When it seems
that you are missing in action
Or am I missing something?
Selah
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