Easter Hymn

Easter

Easter Hymn

Easter breaks our broken living:
God incarnate, bound to die,
Rises, hate and sin forgiving,
Friday’s depths are set on high!
He whose power creates the ages
From a tomb remakes all time:
Lost and found in scriptures pages –
Calvary’s Christ defeats our crime!

Easter heals our frightened feelings:
Hope and light dispel the night
Of a world whose selfish dealings
Hide God’s justice from our sight.
Now released by Saviour’s rising,
Humankind from death set free –
Grave’s decay no more disguising
Love’s eternal victory!

Easter frees our partial thinking
With a gift beyond mind’s powers
Jesus’ risen life now linking
Endless truth with passing hours;
Death and love are joined together
In a mystery so bright –
Bringing hope and life for ever
In this resurrection light!

Easter warms our mortal coldness
With God’s fire beyond the grave –
Kindled by the Christ whose boldness
Gave his life the world to save;
Now that life, as grace and wonder,
Lights a world that failed to hear
Victim’s cry that rent asunder
Power of death and veil of fear!

© Neil Thompson 2008