The heavy darkness, laden with guilt, worry, self recrimination, hatred and jealousy, feuding and thieving, dispersed as the last blast of our collective winter of the soul steamed out of town.
Softly replacing it, singing sweetly as the robin in the apple tree, was something else, something refreshing, uplifting and freeing, bright and beautiful.
This new life, this newfound joy was and is what God always wanted for us, but who could roll the stone of the tomb away which shrouded our hearts and minds and eyes from God's truth? Who would and could do that?
Only the power of God's truth, which is the love in this new day, could. Only the power of God that shines out to us as acceptance, surrender to life and to God, non-violence and the strength and courage to stand before those dark lumbering demons who stalked our collective night.
Only the courage of one to stand up to the many without a single word of self defense, but with the wisdom and the power of knowing that nothing in this world can deter the love of God to preserve him and all of us from the illusionary nightmares we once thought were real.
It seems as if the angel of truth and of love whispers to the whole world this morning,
"Yes, he is risen, and now so are you. Join in the great celebration, in the great song of life and embrace each other with love. And never forget and never slip back. You are new again and you are free. The bondage of oppressors, of malevolent dictators, of heavy greed and power-based corporations and governments has been slain. If you can walk each moment and each hour and each day and each year of this new vision, your world will wake up out of its nightmare. Each one of you who can grasp this truth and live heartily into it, will see that day."
And until that day, he has left his peace with us. His peace will carry us forward on this magnificent journey of life, together, and in love, forever.
Alleluia!
I would like to share a song composed by 2 brilliant members of our parish, one who wrote the words, Peter Siedlecki, and the other who put it to music and orchestration, Roland Martin. It is entitled "A SONG OF RESURRECTION":
ReplyDeleteWhen the faint new presence of light
Nudges the night into leaving,
When the green shoot breaks through the crust
And turns, as it must, into blooming,
When the raindrop quenches the thirst
And raises the cursed and the grieving,
When the old somber ways are destroyed
And what stays is the joy that is human,
This is the meaning of hallelujah, hallelujah!
Rise, come forth, and sing hallelujah!
When the infant takes breath to sustain
The requisite pail of his glory,
When the mother can smile in relief
Expressing belief in this blooming,
And the ancient rolls away age
To turn a new page in the story,
The old somber ways are destroyed.
What remains is the joy that is human
This is the meaning of hallelujah, hallelujah!
Rise, come forth, and sing hallelujah!