Rumors of life

Why look for the living among the dead?  The words echo.  No matter how hard I try, there is no way to prove what I know is true.  Still I try to find convincing words.  I am not alone in this.  At the deanery meeting today, one colleague observed that resurrection is particularly hard to preach.  Yep.

We still look in the tomb

To secure the body

For safekeeping.

Two weeks hence

The body is still gone.

We hear rumors of life

On the road

On the beach

In the bread

In the wine warm on the lips

Down the throat.

We still look

To secure what we think

Is true.

Two weeks hence,

It is still

Gone missing.

There are rumors

Upon rumors

Upon rumors

Of life.