Lumen Christi

is unwavering kindness

    chasing away the unwelcome

    that strangers expect to receive.

is the one word, one deed,

    one gesture that only you

    can speak, can do, can offer

    to heal the darkness, to let

    love continue escaping the tomb.

is sometimes a whisper,

    sometimes a blaze, 

    but always this message:

    “Let them live! Let them live.”