A few years ago I published a book called Easter: 21 Stations, a collections of photographs I had taken of subways walls in the London Underground to a village in South Sudan. These images were paired with poems I had written to help readers prepare for the season of Lent.
The book concluded with this poem for Easter morning. I wish you and yours a blessed day of wonder and praise, and may we let life always Easter in us.
BENEDICTION
As Jesus stepped out of the tomb and into the light of a new
day, over the next 24 hours
He took about 20,000 breaths.
His body made about a million
red blood cells. His heart beat
about 10,000 times. His blood circulated about 12,000 miles.
Have you ever really felt air fill your lungs?
Imagined your bone
marrow making cells?
Noticed blood pulse
through your arms and legs?
The miracle of Easter is, yes, Jesus’ victory over death.
But it is also that life exists
At all. In our world only
0.00000001 percent of matter is alive.
In the universe it is “one-millionth
of one-billionth of 1 percent.”
Resurrection, in some respects, is God’s second miracle.
Life, in all its complexity
and wonder, is the first.
So let us dance, sing,
and bring our praise
Into every day, wasting not
a moment of God’s precious gift.
Let life, I pray, always Easter in us.
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