Today the day

Today 

This day

The day

One day

That changed the world 

Earthquake and darkness 

herald the event

Strong, impassive soldiers

who have seen everything

are stunned into belief...

The dead will walk

The living will fall into

silence

stunned, disbelief 

questioning everything

doubting their certainty

and wondering...

"What did we do...?" 

The faithful will hide

watching from afar

Fearful, bereft, inconsolable

lost and lonely - so very alone. 

God will act

Seeming fury, rents the earth

Heaven itself protests

Earthquake and darkness

Shake the very foundations 

This event, 

This day

The day

Changes

Everything

Forever

View from here

I am having an unexpected trip

I stand in my parents garden

The sun warms my back

Over the wall is the sand dunes and eventually the sea

It is blowy but the spring sun is working its hardest 

I am thankful for this quiet time

This thin time

This unpredictable time

Who knows what will come

Who knows what else will happen

For now peace reigns

And, in my heart I repeat the mantra

God has this, God has this

God

Has

This

Amen 

Living Stones

 

If the children do not shout

these very stones will shout.... 

In the window sits the purple cloth - reminder of  Christ's Kingship 

A candle  tall and strong - Christ's Light

A Stone Cross - copy of one, a strong symbol of our roots in the earth,

in the history of our land

Carved by ancient hands - who vandalised an even more ancient marker of pagan gods...

And Stones... washed and polished rivers stones

Jesus, the stones cry out 

to tell the world 

of your presence 

in the world, in our lives, in our hearts

Lent 6