We Live Not Alone

In the gospel mix of fear,
misapprehension, evening meals,
locked doors and breakfast on the beach,
God’s new age has broken into
the present time, our time.
We preach to a world that is
always in danger of thinking
that death has the last word.
We throw our voices up against
the final enemy one more time.
He is risen!
He comes back to us who
betrayed and denied him; to us
who misunderstood and disappointed
him; to us who fled into the darkness.
He returns to us. He rose for us.
The proof of the resurrection is not
the absence of his body from the tomb
but the presence of the alive Jesus
to his followers. The gospel message
of the resurrection is not first
“Though we die, we will one day
live again” but it is “Though we
were dead, Jesus returned to us.”
Our only claim, our only hope:
He came back to us. We live not alone!

DAS