Easter Grace, 2017

Easter Grace 2017

You ask each of us to hold with our lives

a portion of this Holy Chaos—

a portion of what it means to be human,

made in your image and likeness,

and yet, and still, and completely, free.

So it is that we make our way

and we find our lives holding

the Truth of our world and the truth in faith

of who you call us to be, by your life, your witness. 

It is a sometimes contradictory fullness, that Truth:

Bombs, blooms; evil, awe;

Love, Humanity; Love, Divinity;

Love, Death; Love, Resurrection;

Love.

We ask your blessing

upon this meal we are about to share

and upon the company we keep

so that by the nourishment of both

we may continue to live and move and have Being

as Easter people.  As a people who believe

that there is a light no darkness can overcome;

that death does not hold us bound;

that Love will be what sets us free

to Rise; to Rise; to Rise.

Kimberly M. King, RSCJ