<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Easter Exultet</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Shake out your qualms. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Shake up your dreams. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Deepen your roots. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Extend your branches. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Trust deep water </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and head for the open, </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">even if your vision </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">shipwrecks you. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Quit your addiction </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to sneer and complain. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Open a lookout. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Dance on a brink. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Run with your wildfire. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">You are closer to glory </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">leaping an abyss </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">than upholstering a rut. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Not dawdling. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Not doubting. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Intrepid all the way </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Walk toward clarity. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">At every crossroad </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Be prepared </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to bump into wonder. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Only love prevails. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">En route to disaster </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">insist on canticles. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Lift your ineffable </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">out of the mundane. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Nothing perishes; </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">nothing survives; </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">everything transforms! </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Honeymoon with Big Joy!</div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""> </p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- James Broughton</div></body></html>