Pause for Prayer: FRIDAY 10/8

 

 

After Easter we offer the lilies in church

to any  who want to take them home

and, with a prayer, plant the bulbs 

with the hope they'll rise in glory

next spring... 

 

But here we are and,

in the waning of ordinary time,

next year's lilies have heard our prayer 

and answered: budding, blooming,

bursting forth in glory!

And this, as fading leaves 

begin to lose their grip on summer's branch

and fall, in spirals, to the ground, 

to the earth from which they came and must return 

as all things do, as we shall, too, until  

that last springtime when all will rise and bloom

in glory never fading, in never ending peace...

Until then, Lord, we praise you, we thank you:

for October's glimpse of Easter,

unbidden, unexpected, undeserved,

pure gift of grace and mercy,

a pledge of all you promise:

peace for ever and for ever,

Amen, amen, amen!

 

             All photos by B. Brenon

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