Holy Week 6 – Easter Eve
on a night like tonight
people passed over
from a land filled with suffering
to a place of new heart
on a night like tonight
the wild avenging angel
struck down the arrogance
of a people of blood
on a night light tonight
death gave its last gasp
of trying to hold the
One who’d been killed
on a night like tonight
we all were brought over
to a place of new promise
for a life of fresh starts.
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Holy Week 5
robbery, rape, murder
treason, theft, cruelty
mean kids bullying the
weak, strong kids
pushing their weight
a mother beating a
vulnerable child,
a father violating
their innocence
when we are at our
most despicable,
totally inexcusable
you died for
our sins.
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Holy Week 4
the maundy’s mandates
call us again
to remember by doing
to recall by caring
bread wine feet souls
the simplest things
for telling the most elegant
of stories.
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Holy Week 3
we come to red seas
of our own devising
the pains and chains
of a lifetime crowding
us up against the
sands of desperation
until we turn and see
your hand swiping
wide the waters to
lead us home to
solid ground
give us grace
to turn
and take the path.
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Holy Week 2
endings come upon us,
valleys of dry bones
loom
how will our bones rise
from deceit and lies
and greed
when we have gone
to the dust, refusing
to listen.
breathe your breath
into us, re-sinew
us
while there is still
time
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Holy Week 1
on the steps to the cross
there were stumbles
not by you but by us.
mixed signals, cross
purposes, bad karmas
how could we miss
your loving so clear.
mixed signals, cross
purposes, bad karmas
our answers were wanting
our visions unclear.
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Lent Prayer 40
we cheered you on
especially when we
thought it would go
our way
but when it didn’t
follow our script
we turned
and still do.
forgive us our stupidity,
cupidity, rapidity,
done-deedity.
we don’t make it
home
without you.
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Lent Prayer 39
purity of heart, said
Kierkegaard, is to
will one thing
but I do not, and the
tear rends me with
confusion.
quiet my heart
O Lord
that I may see your
path forward and
let be.
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Lent Prayer 38
in the last days we
seem to cry
about things that
have not gone well
in our lives
as if we were supposed
to be immune from
the gifts you gave us of
mortality and limits
as if my body was not
joy enough even if not
forever, nor my soul
meant for more.
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Lent Prayer 37
connections opened when
we first stopped hiding
first stopped running
from the truth that
we are not
the center.
and opened
conversation with
you, the Other, who
led us to an other, thru
whom we came to know
each other, and our selves.
thank you.
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