Run to them

After Matthew 28:1-20 

Run to them, Mary,

run to the ones who

ran away in fear.

 

Run to them, Mary,

to tell them what

you have seen.

 

Run to them, Mary.

to tell them to find me

where it all began.

 

Run to them, Mary,

to tell them to find me

in Galilee.

 

Run to them, Mary,

to tell them to meet

me there, there where

it all begins again.

 

Photograph by Benjamin Recinos via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

2 Reasons to Remember That You Are Called – Michael Kelley at Forward Progress.

 

Normal Life – Seth Lewis.

 

Random Thoughts on Being a Dad – Tim Challies.

 

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front, poem by Wendell Berry – Matt Wheeler at Rabbit Room Poetry.

The one who escaped

After Matthew 28:1-20 

The one who escaped

the life from before,

the one who wiped

his feet with her hair,

the one scorned and

reviled, is the one

who goes to the tomb

that day. The earth 

shakes with a roar;

she stops and holds

on to her companion.

The guards at the tomb

are terrified, trembling

in fear, frozen like

statues at what they

all can see: the one

in glowing white. 

Like so many times

before, the angel

says do not be afraid.

The one you seek is

not here. The one

you seek has risen.

See the empty shroud.

Go, tell.

 

The one who escaped

the life before sees,

and believes, and runs

to obey. As they run,

another stops them,

and greets them, and

says do not be afraid,

go and tell them

to find me in Galilee.

 

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Some Sunday Readings

 

How eggs became the symbol of Easter – Jane Stannus at The Spectator.

 

Kierkegaard on Easter Weekend – Rod Dreher at Rod Dreher’s Diary.

 

Britain will not be a “Christian country” without Christians – Ben Sixsmith at The Critic Magazine.

 

Who Believes in Easter Anymore? – poem by James Tweedie at Society of Classical Poets.

A Sonnet for Easter Dawn - Malcolm Guite.

Things Worth Remembering: John Donne's Sermon on the Resurrection of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul - Douglas Murray at The Free Press.