Henry Ossawa-Tanner

Last Sunday's lectionary gospel was Jesus and Nicodemus, and we used this painting and this poem (hymn) to aid our reflections:

As the city's lights were fading,

And most people were asleep,

Came a man who truly was seeking

What Jesus had to say.

So they walked and they talked on the terrace

By the light of a thousand bright stars,

And the Lord told the love of the Father

Who had sent his only Son.

Nicodemus said, 'Good Master,

You're a teacher come from God;

No one else could do all these wonders,

Unless he came from God.'

So they walked and they talked on the terrace

By the light of a thousand bright stars,

And the Lord told the love of the Father

Who had sent his only Son.

'If you enter in God's Kingdom,

You must truly be reborn-

Born of water and of the Spirit,'

said Jesus to the man.

So they walked and they talked on the terrace

By the light of a thousand bright stars,

And the Lord told the love of the Father

Who had sent his only Son.

Willard F Jabusch