The Good Shepherd

A reminder that the Good Shepherd cares for all the sheep...including those displaced by violence, or war; or those who arise out of poverty, injury, illness, age...and those who believe they are walled in by gender, heritage, wealth, fear, anger, insecurity, injustice, ignorance, prejudice...or any other obstruction.

Poetry for Easter Day: Malcolm Guite

Easter Dawn

He blesses every love which weeps and grieves
And now he blesses hers who stood and wept
And would not be consoled, or leave her love's
Last touching place, but watched as low light crept
Up from the east.  A sound behind her stirs
A scatter of bright birdsong through the air.
She turns, but cannot focus through her tears,
Or recognize the Gardener standing there.
She hardly hears his gentle question, 'Why,
Why are you weeping?' or sees the play of light
That brightens as she chokes out her reply
'They took my love away, my day is night'
And then she hears her name, she hears Love say
The Word that turns her night, and ours, to Day.

-- Malcolm Guite, Sounding the Seasons

You can hear the poet read this aloud - just click HERE.