Friday, March 22, 2013

Easter Trilogy

Easter Trilogy

1. Palm Sunday

Welcomed as a king.
Royal ride through the gates
Cheering and Homage
        fron the crowd.

"Forgive them Father
            For they know not what they do"

Cloaks and palm branches
    Spread on the road
              In welcome
                       In reverence.


"...save yourself! Come down
     from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"

Hope and Excitement
For the Son of David-
The One who comes in God's name
The One who will save.

"Surely he was the Son of God!"


2. Good Friday

Focus
   on the Darkness of the day-
        No glimmer of the Light to come

Only sorrow.
            And pain.
                      And despair.

How could it be?

How could this happen?

            He is the one....

                      He was the one....

          And yet

               He hangs now from that tree-

                    One among others-

              Stripped and Beaten
   
                    Barely with us anymore.

Soon- He will be gone.

               How can this be?

                   How can this happen?

What of the kingdom
 
         He has promised?

What of the miracles

                          He did?

How could He die?

      He seemed so much more-

                Was He only a man?

       The Darkness of the Day
                    Despair
                                  Uncertainly
                         No glimmer of the Light to come

                   Only women crying
                                          at his feet
                   While mockers scoff

                            and Disciples scatter.

                                       Lost

 
                                    No direction
                                            No focus
                                                  No assurance.

                                    No tomorrow.

 
                    Only the Darkness
                                               of the Day.


3. Easter Sunday

Darkness turned to light
A touch of hope
      And then
             Unadulterated JOY.

The unthinkable has been
                          Thought
The undoable has been 
                                 done
The unreasonable is now
                          Reality.

Darkness turned to light
          By truth

We are not imprisoned
           Any longer
In cells of our own making.

The light has broken through
         Releasing those
               held by Darkness.

A new world begins.

Hope, once scattered

     Is Now Firm

Truth, once uncertain

     Is Now Confirmed

   The Future, once Darkened

   Is now Filled with

       Light

Light that will guide us

     Into a new reality-

 Through the darkness

 Into what was always

      Meant to be.

No more holding back

     For we know what lies ahead.

No more fear of death

    For that blight has been conquered.

    Our hope
        Our truth
            Our future

         Joy-filled with Light.



             Katherine Kavanagh Hoffman                           

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