This is but the beginning of the birthpangs.
—Mark 13.8
I wonder if the darkness had to let go,
had to be overwhelmed,
for the secret hidden within to be let loose,
when God said, “Let there be light.”
I wonder what the tides felt,
being drawn taut,
shoved aside,
when God dilated the Red Sea.
I wonder how the burial bands strained,
tried to keep the body still and mute,
what contractions of gravity gripped the tomb,
when Jesus said, “Lazarus, come out!”
I wonder now beneath the wrenching darkness,
the seething tides of fear and hate,
the painful seizures of power,
what new life God is birthing.
The powers of evil always resist the Giver of Life;
but listen for angels already moving in the slave camps.
From this Golgotha, though sun be darkened, heavens rent,
I wonder what new life will issue forth.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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