Sunday, November 23, 2014

Risen, in the Present Tense – v4

Words, of our faith, the mystery of faith
bound into our lives, our hearts,
heard so many times, memorized
I can hear them as I type this,
“Christ has died,
Christ is risen,
Christ will come again.”
A statement of loss, of victory, of promise,
a covenant of a future yet to come
bound by the wondrous middle,
the affirmation of something
more than mere reporting
We are not told that Christ rose,
as the ancient creed holds,
nothing more than that…
No, this is a bold statement of life
of continuing resurrection, living today
of our promise, the covenant of God
of Christ himself, His promise now too
in the scripture of living as joint heirs,
as fellow disciples, with the first ones, with the saints,
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,
in human form. He is living now,
in the spirit realm, in the Spirit within us,
and He is our Brother,
not our long, far off distant relative.
He is our living Brother, now
We are His companions, His disciples
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 the 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 – v4

(editing original again)
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
Walk to Emmaus
&
Prayers for the Women’s Walk to Emmaus
Crossroads Walk to Emmaus of New England
Walk to Emmaus
Luke 24:13-35
grace
love
Luke 15:11-32
Prodigal Son
Mark 10:17-31
The Parable of the Rich Man
(same template from 11/4/2012)

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