From:  (Alan Zanker)
Newsgroups: uk.religion.christian
Subject: A thought for Easter
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 09:15:23 GMT

Joseph of Arimathea lays the dead body of Jesus in a cave called
'Memory' where he can preserve his remembrance of Jesus forever ...


'He's safe', says Joseph, 'safe in this cool place

And no one now can take my Lord away.

In years to come I'll still see his dear face

As clearly as I've seen it on this day.'


'He's gone!' cries Joseph at the empty tomb:

But Mary says, 'He's left a word for you:

He cannot rest content to be your past,

So he has risen to be your future too.'


(W H Vanstone 1924 - 1999)

Alan