An Easter Prayer
(from Death to Life was selected from the writings of Frederick Buechner
by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.)
O You Who Comes,
who are the hope of the world, give us hope. Give us hope that beyond
the worst the world can do there is such a best that not even the world can
take it from us, hope that none whom you have loved is ever finally lost,
not even to death.
O You Who Died
in loneliness and pain, suffer to die in us all that keeps us from you
and from each other and from becoming as good and as brave as we are
Called to become. O Lamb of God, forgive us.
O You Who Rose Again,
You Holy Spirit of Christ, arise and live within us now that we may
be your body, that we may be your feet to walk into the world's pain, your
hands to heal, your heart to break, if need must be, for love of the world.
O Risen Christ, make Christs of us all. Amen.
Copyright © 2003 St. Augustine by-the-Sea
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