4/2/23 Through 4/8/23

 4/2/23 Through 4/8/23

Sunday

The veil is torn for all to see 

In truth, the Son of God was He.

The quaking earth and darkened sky

Both to this fact do testify

Her child once within the womb

Now placed within a lonely tomb

His every step along the way

Designed to meet this final day

The day His heart be opened wide

And recognized, The Crucified

As Son of God who came to serve

And grant what none on earth deserve.

An entry way in purest love

To meet the Father far above,

To walk again in cool of eve

And comfort once again receive.

Monday

Anointed with the costly nard

An opulence without regard

For cost or waste, for none could weigh

The value of the Master's stay.

What suffering could man endure

To life eternally ensure

What ere the cost, a pittance seems

To find, at last, fulfilled your dreams.

Just knowing Him is not replete

We must be One to be complete,

And One requires giving ALL 

To answer well the Master's call.

So break the alabaster jar

That none remains to keep afar

For ALL must be the gift we give

United with our Lord to live.

Tuesday

Denial is a horrid thing

When done by one we know

Still more, betrayal offering

A sorrow long ago.

For both display the weakness of

The mortal flesh we own

And show us how rejecting love

We Truest Love, disown.

But every sin He nailed upon

The cross that blessed day

Expecting of the coming dawn

When God would have His way.

Repentance and forgiveness then

for humble and for meek

If mercy sought to heal them when

It's Love they truly seek.

Wednesday

Surely I would not betray

I'd like to think would be the way,

But when the suffering begins

I see the weakness of my sins.

How little I may undergo

And so, I fail to ever know

How grace provides for all I need

If just His gentle call I heed.

Forgive, oh Lord, my many wrongs

For far away my soul belongs,

But in Your mercy wash away

The sin that makes my soul decay.

Thursday

On the night before He died

The bread and wine He sanctified

As blood and body thus outpoured

And Christ Himself to be adored.

On this night, a new beginning

Spotless Lamb whose blood is winning

Passage safe to liberation

Forming as a holy nation.

One where greatest serves the least

One where hungry shares the feast

One where wealthy serve the poor

One where love will reign for sure.

Friday

On this day the words are failing

Looking on The Crucified

Sin no longer shadows veiling

Love Itself has been denied

Loving stunned, amazed, and silent

Evil, smug and satisfied.

Tortured in a way so violent

One for all has bled and died

Laid to rest, our future wary

Gone, Messiah we had known

All our thoughts are bleak and scary

All our hope is overthrown

Saturday

This Sabbath day, a solemn one

Our hopes have been destroyed

For gone is now th Holy One

Our world, of God devoid

Today, we know what follows soon

The coming of the dawn

But then, this day would just inpugn

The hope they'd counted on

So, enter into what they saw,

The questions that arose

His death created shock and awe

In even those He chose.

Not ere before was ever seen

A death as His alone

With love the dominating scene

So Christ was clearly known.

But now He lay within the tomb

A body crucified

A day of dark and hopeless doom,

Our Savior now has died.