Another resurrection story

Do not seek death, death will find you.

But seek the road that makes death a fulfilment.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Another resurrection story. In the township of Nain

an only son joins Lazarus, and in time, Jesus himself.

(Let's be generous, and add the daughter of Jairus;

that makes four members of the resurrection guild.)

Perhaps the widow's son will outlive her, this time;

(this is the way things should be).

Then she will be spared the bitterness

of rekindled grief.

Another resurrection story,

but they are all really part of the one.

Death's ultimate conqueror

having come among us.

The ones who followed after him

eventually understood that bodily resurrections

have little use

beyond the postponement of grief.

Death however,

should be received as a divine gift.

Death's purpose is not found in its reversal

through resurrection,

but in the fulfilment of living.

© Ken Rookes 2016