Do you still not get it?

After Luke 24:13-27

How many times did we

talk about this? How many

times did you read this? How

many times did you see 

the reality of the word

in the healings, the teachings,

the sermons, the examples,

the stories, the confrontations, 

the personal experiences,

including your own?

Remember the prophets and

what they said? Don’t you see

that the death wasn’t an option

but a necessity, a plan? Don’t

you know that death, this death,

defeated death? The angel said it:

He is not here.

People, this goes back to Moses,

to the beginning, to the hovering

over the deep. It’s all there;

it’s always been there.

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It's all the talk

After Luke 24:13-27

On the road, they talk

of what’s happened,

trying to make sense

of the arrest, the trial,

the death, the burial,

the tomb, the stone

rolled away, the angel

who says he’s gone.

They roll these things

back and forth, struck

talkative with amazement,

sharing their perplexity,

trying to grasp,

trying to understand,

the meaning and so

discern the future.

A man draws near,

interested in their words.

Almost happily, they 

repeat their conversation,

still reaching for what

it all means, sounding

new to themselves,

because it is, even

the hundredth repetition.

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