One Damned Good Horse

As I pondered today about my topic for Thursday morning's communication, Mel West, Mobility Worldwide's co-founder, came to mind. I wondered if Mel might have an Easter themed insight in his book, "One Damned Good Horse: Stories, Wit, and Wisdom."

To my delight, there is poem from Mel that I want to excerpt for you.

Easter

Easter is about new life.

It is about moving from darkness into light.

It is about new life emerging from death.

It is about rolling away the stones of apathy, hatred, selfishness, uncaring,

Marginalization, racism, and poverty,

And allowing those imprisoned by such

To walk free and into the light of dignity,

pride, hope, and justice.

When a family who has lived in a dirt floored

Mud and stick shack in Nicaragua

Moves into a decent Rainbow Network house they built,

With potable water, a latrine, electricity, and security,

That is Easter Day!

When a family in Kenya who in their desperate poverty

Receives the gift of a Heifer Project cow,

Giving them milk, meat, and manure,

That is Easter Day!

When a poverty-stricken woman in rural Nicaragua

Who is moving toward death from a life-threatening health problem,

Finds that someone 3,000 miles away has funded her life-saving surgery,

That is Easter Day!

When a polio victim in Swaziland

Who has for 37 years crawled upon the ground as a beggar,

Receives the gift of a Mobility Cart,

That is Easter Day!

When the Spirit of a Risen Lord is at work any place in this world,

Creating new life, new hope, new justice, new visions, and new dreams,

That is Easter Day!

Do not contain it to one day, to one place, to one story.

Celebrate it one day, perhaps,

But make it happen all year.

Thanks Mel for sharing your thoughts on celebrating Easter Day not on one day, but on making it happen on every day.