What Crazy God would do
such crazy thing
as, knowing what would come, still
sent a Son
to those who in their time
and times
would cast him out,
make fun of him,
spit in his face,
neglect him and
at last, and always,
hang him from a beam
until the very last of him
was gone –
to God ?
How crazy has God been?
Just so he did,
still does,
and still he lives who died
with such great love.
Who now is ‘crazy’ in this Great Affair?
At Swanwick with Maranatha Community:
(On hearing ‘Outrageous Grace’ on CD by Godfrey Birtill, and remembering a saying by Alphonsus Liguori about our ‘crazy God’- our God who is ‘crazy’ with love for us, or ‘crazy’ about us!- ‘pazzo per amore’)
