Troubled Hearts

Jesus said, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, you will know my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the works themselves. Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If in my name you ask me for anything, I will do it.” John 14:1-14

Troubled Hearts

Easter arise amidst terror and destruction
smack dab in the midst of our troubled lives
we smile and joke and shout "He is risen!"
as we bury our face in tears of sorrow and rage.

All the time we have been held and surrounded
God is not finished with us yet or ever
we fear our poverty, our constant lack
we cannot breathe in life for these troubles.

Despised, rejected, tortured and crucified
God here in the ruins of humanity willed new life
for the broken, the sorrowing, the troubled
setting the Divine between us and terrors.

"Let not your hearts be troubled", so familiar
yet so hard to mkae actually happen
the fears which we hid and felt our shame
have been surrounded by genuine love.

Dive deep into the surf and swim out
let the waters of love cover abd surround you
let this day be one giving in to loving hope
may we rise with Him as we face the worst.