Filled with awe and great joy.
The women came away from the tomb and ran to tell the disciples.
These words at mass always give great joy.
Somehow imagining the scene we become disciples.

And there coming to meet them was Jesus.
Greetings, he said, do not be afraid.
And in mass we too feel we can meet Jesus.
For a moment only we are no longer afraid.

I sat for a long time thinking on these words.
Letting them wash over me.
Thoughts rose joyfully like birds.
There was no horizon however far that I could not see.

Later I looked at a Turner’s seascape.
Here at last the mind can escape.

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Greetings he tells us
He says do not be afraid
And now nor should we

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See Matthew 28 : 8-15