"Taken? Where, Lord? ...Wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together."

And they answered and said unto him, “Taken...? Where? Where are they taken, Lord?” And he said unto them, ”Wheresoever the body (carcase) is, there will the eagles (vultures) be gathered together.”

  

Our life in him wrapped in his swaddling bands

Lying in his manger: the food of beasts:

Bound tight in him where he is

A stone of stumbling, a rock of offence

A gin and a snare

Where we are bound and caught up in him

Stumbled and fallen

Broken and snared

And, there, taken . . .

TAKEN!

Where the eagles (vultures) be gathered together

Where his dead body is

Where dying in him, our earthly life

Is consumed: eaten away: the body picked clean

By vultures: by trial, difficulty and suffering

We who are the food and prey of darkness

The place of the light of life... and joy unspeakable

“Behold, this child is set for the fall

And rising again of many in Israel

And for a sign which shall be spoken against”

  

 (Luke 17: 33 - 37 / Matthew 24: 28)