John 19:38-20:31

I will never get another today.

What will I do with it?

Will I choose what is easy,

Or what is good?

Will I numb myself to real life,

Staring at my device for I don’t want to know how long?

Will I try to control my interactions

With my own brand of self-preservation

Designed to keep others at a distance?

Will I choose lust over love,

Using others to meet my needs,

Physical, Emotional, Spiritual?

Or

Will I crucify my ego,

Kill my rights to “self,”

Flog every hint of using others,

Murder every moment in which I believe I’m the main character?

Will I rise with the force of the new life that runs through my veins,

Speak with the animating breath blown into my lungs,

Act with pure generosity knowing eternal abundance is mine,

And leave the graveclothes of all that I thought was me behind?

He has resurrected the Real,

The flesh and bone animated by his voice

Which beautifully reveal the eternal person whom he formed

And made for a Love so expansive and free

That the rags of self and the tomb of this world

Never stood a chance at containing it.

So today,

Will I wrap myself in death,

Or run wild with life?