In beginnings,
in most awful blank,
God speaks noise into harmony,
light where there was none,
Creation out of the mess,
life out of the grave.
Still, always, everything,
even suffering, even death,
is subject to Creation.
Evil decomposes, breaks down
into fear and sorrow and want.
Becomes compost.
Failure is soil for grace.
Weakness offers room for strong roots.
The seed that has died bears fruit.
Love is eternal. It doesn’t die.
It evaporates.
You can’t see where it goes.
Resurrection is not what happens later,
but the revealing of the uncontainable grace
in what is.
Bearers of goodness and mercy,
even in failure and defeat,
you shine in the darkness.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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