An
 angel.
Dazzling light.
Boulders moved.
Burial head cloth rolled up.
Women running to tell disciples.
Disciples running to see for themselves.
The empty tomb proclaiming

Good News.

He was not
 there.

“Where is he?”

“Mary!”

The one who has loved us
into wholeness
is alive.
and
with us now.

We say with her,

“Rabbouni!”

Night surrendered to day, dark to light,
fear to courage,
death to
resurrection.

Peter,

whose fear could not admit that he knew the Lord,
but now fearless, proclaims him boldly,
across the barren hills,
each place he goes
in every action
he takes.

 Lord,

give
us too
your Spirit:
give us your life
as you gave it to Peter.

Let us show your story with our lives.

Lord,
O help us to
find what is above.
Compassion, gentleness,
kindness, humility, patience.

forgiving one another,
bearing with one another.

Let your peace dwell in our
hearts!

Let us put on
love

and find ways to fix the wrongs we see in our world:
war in Ukraine, social injustice, climate crisis,
children starving, death penalties,
human trafficking.

Help us fix it
all.