Resurrection

Christ is Risen!  Indeed, He is Risen!  Christ’s Resurrection from the dead is not a pious fiction or a myth outside of time.  No.  All of time and space has been transformed by the saving Death and Resurrection of Christ.  The benefits of this historic event of over two-thousand years ago continue to positively affect us today; we are invited to plunge into this drama of dying and rising by cleaving to Christ.  He is the only answer to the tragic reality of suffering and death.  We have to suffer the death-throes of all that is contrary to God’s purposes, but through Christ we know there is victory and fulfillment.  I came across the following poem several months ago and wanted to share it with you at our next celebration of Easter, for it incapsulates in a way that only a poet can, my clumsy musings.

​Happy Easter!

David J. Conrad

I must believe that You rose from the dead
For if You didn’t, then what hope is there
To raise me from the gutter of despair
Out of the sod from which we all were bred?
Made in your image, when we forfeited
Our innocence in Eden for a share
Of Knowledge, we were stubbornly aware
That we were naked, doomed to earn our bread.
I’ve spent too many years on Calvary
Watching great loves disintegrate in death,
Waiting to hear their final, labored breath
To see them rest unchained from agony.
Sweet Jesus, let some angel roll the stone
Out of my heart to see that we have won.

    - Mary-Patrice Woehling​