Inspired by lyrics from “You Are the Light” by Denise Rosier:
“You change dust into gardens, pieces into peace, tears into fountains, chains into release.
You are doubt into action, vision renewed, perfect creation unfolding in view.
You hold all of heaven inside you, no matter what you go through and, if your dreams burn down to ashes, you rise again!
You are the Light—the Light of God, the power of prayer lifted up! Every breath testifies—You are the Light!”
Responsive Reading for April 17
“But Mary stood outside the tomb, weeping…. She turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping?… She thought it was the gardener…. Jesus said to her, ‘Mary! She turned and said to him in Hebrew, Rabbouni,’ which means Teacher” (Jn. 20:11-16).
“You change dust into gardens, pieces into peace, tears into fountains, chains into release.”
“Jesus said to her, ‘… Go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am going to my Father and your Father, to my God and our God’” Mary went and announced to the disciples, ‘I have seen the Lord’” (Jn. 20:17-18).
“You are doubt into action, vision renewed, perfect creation unfolding in view.”
“…At daybreak on the first day of the week they took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus…. Two men in dazzling garments appeared to them…. They said to them, Why do you seek the living one among the dead? He is not here, but he has been raised” (Lk. 24:1-6).
“You hold all of Heaven inside you, no matter what you go through, and if your dreams burn down to ashes, you rise again!”
“On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked … Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the holy Spirit’” (John 20: 19-22).
You are the Light—the light of God,
The power of prayer lifted up!
Every breath testifies—You are the Light—the Light of God!