Karis member Rachel Heard wrote this poem and shared it during our recent Sunday livestream. Check out the text and video below.

These days feel ambiguous
scandalous
under God
who seems silent
these skies are not Persian
but the air still smells like exile

generational disobedience
has carried us away
from land flowing with milk and honey to
foreign borders where
persecution and oppression reign

Consider a few things
while we remember
The sun has never faced anything new

One, let’s not forget
every body is a body
painted in image of sovereign deity
sharing commonality in human condition broken bodies
that point to the broken body that has made us blood bought
dragging us somewhere hopeful

Two, Your savior
did not ride down on a democratic donkey
nor will their elephant trample injustice
The lion and the lamb
are the only animals our allegiance
belongs too

Three, let the gospel roll up your sleeves
Dress you in boldness
Set up shop
Enter your community and
Seek its welfare

Four, when you’re submitting
to your governing authorities
Don’t quarantine your
hope with it

And when decrees
speak fear and confusion
to your heart
Remember the sun shines on nothing new
Even on days like these
so ambiguous
scandalous
under God
who seems silent

(Rachel Heard, 2020)