We Forget

We remember the water-walking,

crowd-feeding, demon-casting,

disease-healing, water-to-

wine-making, dead-raising Jesus;

and when we compare all of that

to our feeble and obsessive attempts

at keeping ourselves alive

and out of harm's way,

it's easy to reach despondency

and even disbelief.

   But we dare not forget

   the two greatest miracles

   available to us every day

   in this precarious bag

   of tricks we call life:

presence and listening.

When we practice table-sitting,

   meal-sharing, story-listening,

      being there willing to care,

         the gift of resurrection is

            as palpable as it was

               in the Easter garden’s first light.

It's the stories we share

that lead us out

of our entombing wilderness

and weave us together

into a vibrant community of hope.

© 2015 Todd Jenkins