Rise Again

This is an old one, from the days when I did a Lenten booklet for OPMH...

Rise Again


From the mire of everyday life, we rise…
from the endless warfare of the workplace, 
the economy,  the traffic, the environment,
from the politics, the unrest, the crises, 
from the wounded cries ofthis importunate, fractured world.

From our knees, we rise
from our prayers and penance, 
from the reality of our sin 
and the certain knowledge of our guilt , 
our failures and our lack of merit. 

We rise into the hope of rebirth,
into the  knowledge of grace and love
and our acceptance of both,
into lives washed clean
by a sacrifice beyond our understanding.

Into the Easter dawn 
we rise again.

Alleluia.