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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