Thursday, April 17, 2025

(For) SATURDAY, DAY 40 OF LENT, 2025

There is no passage in John to address the emptiness Jesus' followers felt on Saturday, the 40th day of Lent - the Sabbath that was the most important day of PASSOVER.

They felt grief! They would have felt what we feel when loss shouldn't have happened, when the hurt is so deep all we can do is agonize. 


GRIEF

November 28, 2021

Lola Rice Cain

 

Grief is love poured out as the final act of care

It washes over me in unwelcome waves of sorrow

Subsides momentarily, then blindsides me again and again,

Mercilessly hammering at my consciousness

And intruding into my attempts at slumber.

 

Grief is love in its final earthly form

A painful reenactment of all that came before

It oozes through my every pore

And is the assailant at my heart’s door

It refuses to disappear, but is slowly being subdued.

 

Grief is love unleashed in ways I could never have conceived

And I must allow it its time as there is a time to grieve

Even so, as it flows in and out of my awareness

I find respite in memories that make their way

Through the fog of the pain – and I will live to love.


 

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