Today, it is Easter.
Today, this day, every day, Christ is risen, the world is made new, and we celebrate God’s triumph over evil and death.
Today, at least 60 people were killed and many more injured–most of them women and children–in an apparent suicide bombing at a park in Lahore, Pakistan.
Today, remembering that the cross and resurrection are always intertwined, and we are always both the cause and the victim, the sorrow and the resurrection joy,
we offer this special prayer/meditation:
God, forgive me for Good Friday.
The Cross
The Cross.
The loss.
The cost.
The gain for me
the win
sin-free
somehow.
The miracle
the victory
the irony
all done for me
amazing grace,
somehow.
The life
the death
the love
the gift for me
too good to be
true.
Somehow.
Yes, the blood
The hurt
the cause
too close for me
too hard to see
somehow.
Yes, the tree
the cursed wood
shaped to a “T”
pounded by nails, by me,
twisted by pain’s travail,
no pain, no gain for me
how quickly I see
the “T” becomes an “I.”
I, the cause and effect,
I, the good thief and the bad,
I the Pilate, I the priest.
I the leper, I the least,
I, St. Peter, I, St. John.
I was there, I was gone
I, the mother
I, the crowd,
one hoping for salvation
one cursing out loud.
I, the centurion,
believing at last
I, me, looking at the tree,
bended knee,
aghast.
God, thank you for Easter.
Amen.
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