Practice Resurrection: Be believing!

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Be believing*

(John 20:19-30)

Later on

that day / the dark room

was enough

to concoct buttoned down,

in our minds.

 

While we lingered bolted-in,

shut-up / You

breezed past barricade as One

hole-pocked / exhaled

absolution, a hot gust

peace be with you;

materialized new --

as Yourself / awake & alive

after the woman's claim

you spoke her name.

 

Afraid / our fingers

traced your split side

'til we inhaled

Your closer breathing,

our truer air.

 

*I wrote this poem a few years ago, inspired by the form Luci Shaw used in her poem, Ascending.

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What do you need help believing to be true about the resurrected Christ?  What fears are hindering you from receiving his offer of peace?