Easter Blessings to All

"Spring"
by Mary Oliver

Faith 

is the instructor. 

We need no other.

Guess what I am,
he says in his
incomparably lovely

Young-man voice.
Because I love the world
I think of grass,

I think of leaves
and the bold sun,
I think of the rushes

In the black marshes
just coming back
from under the pure white
And now finally melting
stubs of snow.
Whatever we know or don’t know

Leads us to say:
Teacher, what do you mean?
But faith is still there, and silent.

Then he who owns
the incomparable voice
suddenly flows upward

And out of the room
and I follow,
obedient and happy.

Of course I am thinking
the Lord was once young
and will never in fact be old.
And who else could this be, who goes off
down the green path,
Carrying his sandals, and singing?