Easter

Easter

Three hundred and sixty four days a year,

I am glad to be retired.  I am happy and content

With all the things I do.

More than glad to be

a pastor in the pew.

Then there is that other day

when I wish I still had the chance

to sing and shout and skip and tell

the resurrection dance.

Easter evokes such joy in me,

I am always so inspired,

  I wish I had a place

To preach, and could unleash

all my Easter fire.

 Easter is a state of mind, a new reality;

Not just the one time event;

But a cosmic shift in consciousness.

There is so much joy in me at Easter

That it cannot be contained;

Nor even fully named.

The way is open to eternity,

And we are one with God.