Today's poem is The Kingdom by R S Thomas, which is easy enough to find online, for example here

The photo is a building bearing the inscription.The Glasgow Eye Infirmary' - a hospital where people would seek the restoration of vision.  Nowadays the building houses specialist sexual health services, a range of routine and crisis support for the people of this city.

Thomas's poem employs the image of the Kingdom as a hospital, where true healing is found, and a single green leaf as symbol of faith.

The prayer:

God whose governance defies human understanding,

As we gaze into the mirrors of our own hearts and mind

Help us to glimpse again the vision

The vision of healing, wholeness, hope and harmony...

And renew our faith, so that it is as simple as a single green leaf

Amen

A small sticker, with a silhouette nativity scene and the words 'Christmas Blessings'

At the heart of Christmas is the story of a baby born in a barn/outhouse/stable/cave in a time of oppression and hardship, yet this was the greatest gift of love, when LOVE entered creation to transform it from within.  What better blessing could there be.

Unsurprisingly, I found another candle on which to stick my sticker - and I am enjoying its gentle warmth and flickering glow as I type.

I wonder what others will do with theirs?