THE Gardener

“The resurrection tells us it is never too late. Every so often we will be surprised. We must believe that the stone will be rolled back, and we must be ready to poke out our timid heads, take off the linen bindings of death, and walk free for a time, breathing resurrection air.”― Ronald Rolheiser, Prayer: Our Deepest Longing

“Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept, she bent over to look inside. Then she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been, one at the head and the other at the feet. They asked her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?’ She replied, ‘They have taken my Lord away, and I don’t know where they have put him.’ As she said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. But she did not realize it was Jesus. Jesus asked her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Who is it you are looking for?’ She thought he was the gardener and said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary!’ She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, ‘Rabboni!’ (which means, ‘Teacher’).” – John 20:15-16

Ashes to Resurrection
Third Day
He is Risen
Is, not was
Now, this moment, each day
For each and all
No one left behind, excluded, othered
For each and all
Love
Resurrection air
Breathe it in

God’s Love – “Who breathes where You will, breathe into me and draw me to Yourself. Invest the nature You have shaped, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in Your sweetness this clay might turn from lesser things, that it may accept (as You give them) spiritual gifts, and through pleasing jubilation, it may melt, entirely, in holy love, reaching finally out to touch the Uncreated Light.” – Scott Cairns