Sunday, November 23, 2014

Risen, in the Present Tense – v3

New eyes to see Your promise
Words, of our faith,
the Mystery of Faith
bound into our lives, our hearts,
seared into our memory
heard so many times,
“Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again”
A statement of loss and
a covenant of a future yet to come
bound by the WONDROUS MIDDLE,
the affirmation of something
more than mere reporting
witnessed, certain,
unbelief but TRUE

We are not told that Christ rose,
from the grave, the tomb
as the ancient creed holds,
a static moment, soon to be forgotten
No, this is a bold statement of life
of continuing resurrection, living today
of our promise, of the prophecy,
in the scripture as living joint heirs,
as fellow disciples, apostles, fishermen with them,
as living brothers and sisters with Christ
in the present moment. He is alive! He IS risen
living now, as surely as the moments
He walked this earth, with them,
in human form. He is living now,
and He is our brother,
not our long, far off distant relative.

He is our living brother, now, in the present
We are His companions, His disciples
walking yoked with him
in the field, in the vineyard,
our Master at the plow, working,
Just as much as the first twelve,
who shared the bread, the wine
We are His contemporaries, their peers
a big, rambunctious living family
Heirs in the first degree
Feeling the presently risen Christ
walking that Emmaus Road,
the journey of our lives
after the rising on Easter
Living with a Christ in the present tense
HE IS RISEN; Christ IS risen indeed!


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edited November 23, 2014
Risen, in the Present Tense – v3

(editing version 2)
edited April 12, 2014
Risen, in the Present Tense – v2
March 15, 2008
Risen, in the Present Tense
The "mystery of faith" from the Great Thanksgiving
versus the Apostle's Creed

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