Resurrection Madness

I Praise you for this Resurrection Madness

Lord of such amazing surprises as put a catch in my breath

and wings on my heart.

I praise you for this joy, too great for words,

but not for tears and songs and sharing, for mercy

that blots out my betrayals and bids me begin again,

and to limp on, to hop-skip-and-jump on.

To mend what is broken in and around me

and to forgive the breakers; for this YES

to life and laughter, to love and lovers,

and to my unwinding self; for this Kingdom

unleashed in me and I in it forever.

And no dead ends to growing, to choices, to chances,

to calls to be just.

No dead ends to living, to making peace, to dreaming dreams,

to being glad of heart.

For this resurrection madness which is wiser than I

and in which I see how great you are, how full of grace,

Alleluia!

-Ted Loder, Guerrillas of Grace