Easter Sunday
As you enter into this Morning Prayer, remember that God is with you and ready to speak to you because he loves you. Enjoy the presence of your Lord and Savior. Pray as you are able: use the entire email or for a shorter time of prayer, be led through all five sections but focus on one element in each of the sections.
Easter Meditation
“What hard travail God does in death!
He strives in sleep, our despair,
And all flesh shudders underneath
The nightmare of his sepulcher.
The earth shakes, grinding its deep stone;
All night the cold wind heaves and pries;
Creation straining sinew and bone
Against the dark door where he lies.
The sky bent, pent in seed, grows straight
And stands. Pain breaks in song. Surprising
The merely dead, graves fill with light
Like opened eyes. He rests in rising.”
- Wendell Berry
Prayer
Glorious Lord of Life, we praise you, that by the mighty resurrection of your Son, you have delivered us from sin and death and made your whole creation new; grant that we who celebrate with joy Christ’s rising from the dead, may be raised from the death of sin to the life of righteousness; for he lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever. Amen.
Readings
Psalm 118:1-24 & John 20:1-8
REMEMBER – Today is the feast day of all feast days! Break your fast for good, gather for worship with God’s people, and celebrate Christ’s resurrection.