Peace…
Easter seems long past, but at a time when our minds are still being drawn to Ukraine, and politics at home feel uncertain, my thoughts have drifted back. When Jesus come to his disciples after his crucifixion he came, not with condemnation, but with peace. Perhaps we still need that assurance of peace in our own, our present time. But step back for a moment to that upper room…
He speaks of peace while all inside
disciples' minds are churned about;
their memories haunt their waking time,
while day and night are fused by doubt.
He speaks of peace while all the world
will clamour at our open door,
while shards of music sing and break
with light in discord on the floor.
Into this chaos spirit spills,
a calming notion, 'God is good',
and real as life, the Christ was there,
the Christ they'd hammered to the wood.
This God it is who offers peace
to bound disciples held by fear,
who breaks impossibilities,
who makes the clouded way seem clear.
Into this calm we'll step and stay,
in love's assurance find God's peace
with those whose feet had turned to clay,
we'll find that fear will stop, will cease.
And in this moment, in this time
within a world so torn by death,
again we'll try to live out peace,
with every lasting, living breath.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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