RESURRECTION – DARKNESS – CASSIE & ME – Edna Starbuck

RESURRECTION
  
On a dark spring afternoon
In the rising wind and rain of a precedent storm
Men walking by, stopped, and read the sign,
Nodded their heads in approval and went on.
One jokingly saying, “A job well done, —that
one will bother us no more.”
Not knowing God's love cannot be put
to death on a cross.
This is why we have Good Friday
then Easter.


 
DARKNESS
 
It’s so dark in here Lord.
I can't see what's going on,
Can you?
Can't you do something about it?
Can't you turn on the light?
But that's crazy.
I know you've tried.
I know the darkness bothers you too.
I know the closed doors bother you.
I know,
Because you've been standing outside so long
Just outside.
Waiting.
Wanting just one small opening.
It doesn't take much of  Your light
And we can begin to see.
Why are the minds of men so dark?
And — hard to get into?


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CASSIE & ME
 
I didn't see it coming
The leaving I mean
I was caught up in the todays
I so enjoyed the times with her
The two of us
We baked the cookies,
Walked to the store,
A visit with a neighbor.
Watched the mourning dove
build its nest and hatch
its young
She would get so excited
When she saw the little heads
Come up out of the nest
Each day brought a new flower
a new joy
No, I didn't see it coming
I was too busy
Watching Cassie grow
 

— Edna Katharine Meinert–Starbuck

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Edna Katharine Meinert–Starbuck

Wedding of Edna & Robert Starbuck at Saint John Lutheran Church – Easton Township, Kansas – September 1948