You don’t have to travel across the world
to be baptized in the Jordan River;
only through the space time continuum.

By the power of the Spirit of God
The still clear water of the modern font
Becomes the flow of that ancient river;
Cleansing you as it was itself once cleansed
by him who came after and yet before.

“This is my beloved,” the voice beckons,
Echoing from those first century shores,
And into our very own, and beyond.

Calling out to the called out ones, it rings
Truer than our own truths we held so dear
Before we, too, were brought through that River.