Alleluia!

Easter Day

Let everything that has breath
praise the Lord.
Hallelujah!
Psalm 150:6

Who will roll away the stone?
When they looked up, 
they saw that the stone, 
which was very large, 
had already been rolled back

Who will roll away the stone?
look up
lift your head
open your eyes and see
there is nothing to bar you from the empty tomb
and the fullness of God’s love

Alleluia!
Christ is risen!

Empty

Holy Saturday

Will you wonders be known in the dark?

or your righteousness in the country

where all is forgotten?

Psalm 88:13

weariness meets the morning

bright and fresh and sorrow laden

birds and blades of grass hold their breath

time forgets its path

emptiness fills creation

awaiting God’s miracle of love

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Final turn

Good Friday

For innumerable troubles have crowded upon me;

my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see;

they are more in number than the hairs of my head,

and my heart fails me.

Psalm 40:13

the path leads to a garden

and a betrayal

to the architecture of power

and frail human justice

through the streets of taunts

and the persistent presence of certain women

and finally empties out

        at the foot of the cross

where I am bereft

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Costly

Maundy Thursday

When my spirit languishes within me,

you know my path.

Psalm 142:3

precious

a shared meal

with friends

close at hand

laughing and longing

sacred

offering to serve

to touch

to wipe clean the dust of the day

a tear-stained face

costly

a night of prayer

yearning for a different path

yet staying the course

choosing love

the hour is at hand

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