You saw that all was good

A meditation featured in our JUST LENT course focussing on the dignity of humanity and all of creation

From the dust you raised us,
breathing into our lungs
as we emerged into a startling world,
finding our way.
You looked at us
and saw that all was good.
And as the first light reflected in our eyes,
you saw the beauty of your own Son’s face,
staring back.

You grew into our world,
which was your world,
shedding the cloths which had wrapped your infant form,
reached out to us
across a scorched land
as we lost our way,
burned by our own mistakes.

Your arms, stretched out across the beams,
dropped your blood into our world
which was your world.
Startled and subdued,
your heart beat to the rhythm of love.
Your lips spoke peace,
even as you breathed your last,
and gave up the ghost.

You emerged from the cold earth.
A dark cave had homed your scratched, serrated body,
had hidden you from the world’s rude eyes,
wrapped in cloths which now lay neatly folded,
like you had all the time in the world.

In darkness your love shone,
turned stones,
moved the earth.
You looked at us,
breathed into our lungs,
which heaved with the shear beauty of it all,
as we emerged into a new world
which was your world,
startled by your love.
Your breath blew off the dust.
You saw that all was good.