Prayers For Easter
Easter Morning
As the world sings triumphant cries to heaven over death that You conquered,
help us, Lord, tomorrow as well, when the dresses are put away and the candy is
all eaten and on with life we go let us not forget.
The celebration of Your Resurrection over death is a celebration of life that
should continue well beyond the sunrise service and the music, rehearsed for
days prior; it is beyond the sign of spring beyond the lily beyond new lambs
grazing in open fields.
Resurrection is a daily celebration over fear; man’s greatest and most powerful
enemy. Fear of tomorrow, fear of our yesterdays, fear of what shall become of
our young our old our unborn. Resurrection is replacing fear with physical
action.
This alone, the most touching and profound of Your signs that fear is dead and
belief in You brings, not just hope but life.
What better living parable could You have brought? All fear death. All. Even in
the garden, You took on our fear if for only moments, it was as real as our
fears can be real and You knew then that this single enemy must be destroyed.
And, You sacrificed Your life, leaving those who had been comfort, and follower;
You left them behind, to conquer fear.
I shall cling to this now, and the tomorrows given me.
Peace and Thanksgiving lifted unto You.
Amen.