Here’s a prayer for Easter Sunday from Brian
Draper.
Prayer
Lord,
as if the shock
of Good Friday wasn’t enough for your closest followers...
We feel for
those faithful women who went to visit you
just after
sunrise on that Sunday morning,
and fled,
trembling and bewildered and afraid.
You were not
there.
Forgive us when
we sanitise your death.
And forgive us,
too, if we belittle your resurrection!
Please help us
to see this most incredible of moments,
this greatest
twist of any plot,
through fresh
eyes,
on this
bewildering, yet most joyful of mornings.
Help us to see
it through the tear-filled eyes of those women.
Help us to see
it through the disbelieving eyes of the men,
some of whom
came running.
And help us to
glimpse it through your own eyes,
which must have
blinked into the early morning sunlight
of that first
Easter Day,
from out of
complete, and utter, darkness,
and refocused,
and creased,
with a smile.
You are risen
indeed.
~ written by Brian Draper, and
posted on the Monthly Prayers page of
the Christian
Aid website. http://www.christianaid.org.uk/
