A short story to tell

 

We had a powerful Good Friday reflective service yesterday.  I finished the service not with a blessing but with this piece by Roddy Hamilton…  

gather round
I have a story to tell
of one who reached inside himself
and took a handful of love
like a pile of stardust
and said: this is for you
it is all you need
it is all you will ever need
there is enough here
to change the whole world
take it

many laughed at him
mocked him
and ignored the invitation

but some dared to take it
and those who did
noticed something about this love
they found they could do what the gift-giver could do
they could stand with the lost
welcome the traveller
eat with the hungry
they found themselves doing what the man first did to them
give something of themselves to others
they became like the man
offering themselves
and as they offered themselves
others took the invitation
and many still do
and many still trust
it is enough to change the whole world

written by Roddy Hamilton, and posted on Listening to the Stones. http://newkilpatrickblog.typepad.com/nk-blogging/mucky-paws/  

So because of Easter… because of love… Jesus said ‘Go into the world and make disciples of all nations, teach them all that I have taught you, baptise them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and surely I will be with you to the very end of the age’. 

Happy Easter.