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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