Don McCaleb

END / BEGINNING

Jesus was gone. His body shut away in the midnight cold   of the tomb.  It looked like darkness had won.
Was it the end … or was it the beginning?

Was it the end of a peasant teacher and His message of compassion?
Or was it the beginning    of a death-to-life, third-day,    big-bang    of grace? 
The beginning    of a hate-into-hope, water-into-wine, way of walking the world.
The updending     of every curse and the winning    of souls-caught-fire from the spark of Christ’s   life   rekindling.

He got up from the grave   in that resurrection   miracle at the intersection    of truth and grace;
crushing humanity’s   final enemy   and the victory  is His. 

God’s boundless   now-and-not-yet power brings   
forgiveness to life   when all seems lost,   
It means   freedom’s alive     no matter the cost. 
So in this hour,    Let the power   
of Christ and His work on the cross     arise   
in our hearts, in our city and across the earth. 

Where there are scars     let His healing come alive.
Where there are broken hearts    let His love come alive.
Where there is darkness    let His light come alive.