Experience of Resurrection
Easter Day; Matthew 28:1-10
I have not hurried, as day dawned,
feeling earth quake, the tomb undone,
yet I have felt that stone roll back,
tomb become womb in light of sun.
I have not heard the angel say:
“Don’t be afraid, he is not here!”,
yet I can tell that he is raised -
in sacred story he comes near.
There women met him, heard his voice,
reached for his feet, washed with their tears.
Like them, I hear him say: “Don’t fear!”
I go to tell and he appears.
I know what meaning his life gives,
how he transformed my grieving days,
how I have grown beyond my fears,
songs I had lost now ring with praise.
This is my sign of empty tomb:
I am transformed to go and tell.
Sometimes it feels like thorns and nails,
yet through it all he makes me well.
Barbara Messner 1/04/2026
Barb, poet priest 