THE PEW

 

THE PEW

    [Weekly Email to Rudolf Bultmann while reading his Marburg Sermons

     rom This World and Beyond, delivered between 1936-1950.]

I sit in the pew.

This is where I worship from.

On Sunday.

On Sundays.

Other than Karen,

the people who sit with me

in the pew

are not in the pew.

My people are not here.

The pew.

It's not easy.

Pastors say,

It’s never easy

stepping

into the pulpit.

How could it not be lonely?

Still, we fill it up each Sunday.

It was crowded this morning.

This pew.

Filled up.

All of us scrunched together.

Shoulder to shoulder,

scrunched in the pew.

Jim Bodeen

27 January 2027