Ryanne Molinari

Easter morn rose grey with fog

-anticipation hid-

No dawn’s light to testify

to what the Savior did.

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Still we know and sing aloud

of the Risen Son

And yet the part that strikes me most

was that on Friday done.

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Rising up is natural;

the sun never stays down.

What is more a miracle’s

a God put ‘neath the ground.

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That He should live, lifted high,

is glorious, fitting, right-

And yet what is most shattering

is that my Lord would die.

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Rising reign proves deity,

but in that final breath,

Is found the Lover’s agony

that giveth life in death.

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Now on this grey Easter morn

the fog is found a friend;

Coronated by cruel thorns,

the radiant King ascends.

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I know by noon the sun will burn

this ling’ring shade away.

Yet ’twas the shrouded cross earned

the joy that warms today.

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“He is Risen!” Yes, indeed!

We, in Christ, are raised!

And “lema sabachthani”

Has turned to sunlit praise.