Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of March 27, 2016
March 27 - Easter Sunday - Psalm 102: 12 - 27
March 28 - 1 Timothy 6: 11 - 14
March 29 - Proverbs 10: 20
March 30 - Jeremiah 33: 14 - 16
March 31 - Psalm 3
April 1 - Acts 4: 1 - 12
April 2 - Psalm 116: 1 - 8
This morning in her sermon, Rev. Lee posed the question,
the same one asked by the angels of the women
gathered at Jesus' tomb 'on the first day of the week:
Why do you seek the living among the dead?
As though some heavy stone were rolled away,
You find an open door where all was closed,
Wide as an empty tomb on Easter Day.
Lost in your own dark wood, alone, astray,
You pause, as though some secret were disclosed,
As though some heavy stone were rolled away.
You glimpse the sky above you, wan and grey,
Wide through these shadowed branches interposed,
Wide as an empty tomb on Easter Day.
Perhaps there’s light enough to find your way,
For now the tangled wood feels less enclosed,
As though some heavy stone were rolled away.
You lift your feet out of the miry clay
And seek the light in which you once reposed,
Wide as an empty tomb on Easter Day.
And then Love calls your name, you hear Him say:
The way is open, death has been deposed,
As though some heavy stone were rolled away,
And you are free at last on Easter Day.
-- On Easter Day - Malcolm Guite,
To hear the poem read this aloud, click HERE.
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