Because she has loved me
She will love me.
As the sunset is bursting with beauty
So the sunrise will be beauty filled.
The way this toy boat floats
So also an aircraft carrier.
The whimsy of a floating balloon
Increases as you release it.
If A = B = C
A = C
If an impossibility happens
The impossible is possible.
In the same way
Paul uses logic
To prove the illogical.
The first fruits
From a New tree.
Foretaste of what will be.
While others left, off on their way
Mary stayed and wept
She wondered where her Lord had gone
And who, his body kept.
She was pleasantly surprised
When gardener turned out to be
That Jesus for whom her heart was for
Looking right at her, saying “Mary!”
How often do we look at things
Without a pinch of hope?
How often is our vision blurred
By being at the end of our rope?
Mary was not looking
For a Savior that could dance
She’d assumed the body was taken
And she had lost her chance
Her chance to participate in grieving
To remember what she’d lost
To sit and ponder just how great
Everything that had happened, cost.
I wonder what would’ve happened
If for life, her hope had room
If she pumped her fist like a child who won
When she discovered the empty tomb?
If Jesus would have played a bit
Of Holy “Hide & Seek”,
Or if he would have tapped her shoulder
Then turned the other cheek
I’m not advocating
That there isn’t time to grieve
But if that’s all we’ve come to do
We need an invitation to believe
Believe that what looks like death
And causes apprehension
Can be offered to God in Jesus’ name
And used for His redemption
Paul writes to remind Corinth
Of the good news he’s proclaimed
No longer do they worry about
By what people group they’re named
They’re continually being saved
By the Christ-centered good news
That through His resurrection
We’ve all become infused
This New Creation power
That brought Jesus New Living
Is the same that’s offered each of us
Freedom and forgiving
Release from what has bound us
Renewing of mind and heart
So many saw him walking around
And that was only the start
He appeared to over 500
And then appeared to James
And even appeared to Paul
As he was persecuting in God’s name.
By the grace and power at work in us
Even more will believe
For when they welcome New Creation
It is Jesus they receive..
words from wick 