The shadows grow longer with each step The sun makes her grand entrance Why do you look for the living among the dead? Dazzling reflections in a pool of water Circle joining circle joining circle Why do you look for the living among the dead? We look for you Jesus The tomb is empty Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but has risen. A poetic death A beautiful rebirth May we find you among the living We are here, and Christ has risen Lord, we join in your holiness Jesus, we see you in your rebirth Spirit, we need you in our shadows Amen (Vox Prayer Team)
Scripture
We invite you to hear from the Gospel according to Luke 24:1-12
1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in dazzling clothes stood beside them. 5 The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but has risen. 6 Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be handed over to the hands of sinners and be crucified and on the third day rise again.” 8 Then they remembered his words, 9 and returning from the tomb they told all this to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 Now it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them who told this to the apostles. 11 But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them. 12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; then he went home, amazed at what had happened.
The Good News of the Lord. Thanks be to God! The grass withers and the flower fades, but the Word of the Lord endures forever Amen
How might the places of loss in our lives be generating rebirth?
What unexpected voices are inviting us to disrupt our lens of normalcy?
How might we expand our imagination of hope?
Benediction
When the promise of resurrection seems like idle rumors open us to hear hope from unexpected messengers Stir our imagination in how to learn from the wisdom of the marginalized May curiosity propel us forward stooping down to marvel at mystery looking into the confounding Glimpsing Empire’s violence undone by God’s Love Stir our imagination in how to participate in beautiful possibility The Nonviolent One has not gone away but has gone ahead of us. Stir our imagination in how to courageously follow as couriers of love Show us another way and another world is possible As death’s tale gives way to life and new beginnings Stir our imagination in how to scatter seeds of new life in a decomposing world In the name of the One who encompasses us in Love’s neverending story who speaks good news over friend and foe and who animates our being with a new life narrative. Amen. (Vox Prayer Team)
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