Prayer For Surprise On Easter Morning
We wake this morning, often unsurprised
The scandal of conquered death
Now replaced with familiar expectation.
He is risen indeed
words more worn than new,
like crumbles of day old bread.
Gift us humility to be surprised
That the story we know is still being written.
Our waiting has been fickle
We’ve lingered at certain tombs, like the women,
visiting them while dark,
beckoning your presence,
longing for the stone to be rolled away
And we’ve left others, like the disciples
some too small or too large,
too long ago or too recent
to risk disappointment and hope.
On this day of resurrection,
Renew us with young hope
That we might look for you, again,
Waiting as a gardener
At tombs we pace each day
And those we’ve left for years.
Gift us humility to be surprised
that we might we might hear you call our name
that we might see you risen, again.
Jesse French
Restoration Project Executive Director
