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Were You There?
Don Erickson
The Word’s Witness
In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was God.
I was there and why all were there at the cross.
I was in the tomb as well,
But I was not there nor as a body in the earthly realm for long.
The Spirit of my way, truth, and life,
She like the wind swirls in the world,
Stilling the seas that seek her.
The Spirit, as the Truth of Love,
moves in the love of a mother,
Of a father, of caregivers, in loving acts,
In the love of a neighbor, the love of a stranger,
All giving witness to this eternal gospel
that declares love never ends.
Love cannot be disappeared.
The Love of Christ remains,
rising with us, rising in the moon, stars, and sun,
rising with the tides and with our breath,
in the newly opened eyes of every child.
Rising in the dusty landscape of Judea
All those years ago, and again and again,
And walking now where you live,
Each and every mile.
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