Here is a
closing “charge” or “commission” before the benediction for Easter Sunday
morning. It was written by Roddy Hamilton, who posts on the New Kilpatrick Parish website (see link
below).
Easter Sending
have you
ever noticed
that it is
the space that holds everything we believe
it is the
gap
the lacuna
the void
in which we
place everything we fundamentally believe
in that
space
the
emptiness
of tombs
lies the
fullness of our faith
and in such
spaces
we believe
when the
void is found
the emptiness
of the tomb is met
it is then
we trust resurrection
and that
what Jesus said
is true
we remember
what he told us
and believe
it’s kind of
obvious that you need
an empty
tomb for resurrection
but you need
that emptiness
to have a
full faith
filled with
hope
and
possibility
and what
might be
so may we
step into this emptiness
and believe
the life
Jesus spoke of might be true
the love he
held to might be true
the words he
spoke might be true
because
there is only space
where death
ought to be
this
possibility of life
this
resurrection of spirit
in every
empty space
is our new
hope
go and
believe into the void
~ written by Roddy Hamilton and posted on the New Kilpatrick
Parish Churchwebsite. https://www.nkchurch.org.uk/original-liturgy
