Poem for Worship
Easter 2A
by Wes Morgan

Easter is a mystery -- 
	the greatest mystery of faith!  
It is that portion of faith 
	which calls for the largest leap
beyond all that we can see or touch or know.  
Easter brings us up-against the edges 
	of life and death and everything. 
For it is here that the boundaries 
	between life and death 
become soft and merge into one another.  
It is here that the borders which separate 
	time and eternity melt and run over each other.  
It is here, at Easter, 
	that we stand in the midst of creation 
		and re-creation 
	and wonder... wonder... wonder... 
because it is here, at Easter, 
	that we look deep 
	into the mystery of all creation 
and confess we don't know.  
We don't know how -- 
	              or why -- 
	                   or what.  
We don't even know what we don't know.  
Easter moves us beyond knowing into faith 
	which is the surest kind of knowing.  
It is here at the corner of life and death 
	that faith lives . . .
It is here at the intermingling 
	of life and death and faith 
that we come to the greatest truth about ourselves:
the great God of the universe -- the One who made us, 
loves us with a love which not even death can kill -- 
loves us with a love which only death can reveal.  
It is here, 
	where everything runs together and blurs, 
	                that one thing becomes very clear -- 
life is a mystery that God has created, 
		and called us to participate in, 
so that our living might be lost in that mystery -- 
so that our dying might be beyond that mystery -- 
so that we might come to where life 
in its eternal qualities will be celebrated 
	in God's full Presence forever!  
		Amen and Alleluia! ! !


(Comments to Wes at wes77@cebridge.net.)
First Christian (Disciples)
Conroe, TX