Human Countenance

 He said to them,

“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you,
that everything written about me in the law of Moses
and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.”
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.
And he said to them,

“Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer
and rise from the dead on the third day
and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins,
would be preached in his name
to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
You are witnesses of these things.”

Luke 24: 35-48

Your words, oh Lord are words that speak of everlasting life.  It is my incomplete understanding that my eyes are shut and my ears closed off.  It is my hardened heart that refuses the grace offered copiously through your precious blood.  It is my feeble strength that carries me so far and then no more.  It is my selfish will that I declined to relinquish to your care.  My spirit is then ailing because I renounced life over death.