Reflection for the Saturday

Saturday (Matthew ch 27 v 62 – 66)

The day after the day it finished.

When finest aspirations fail

and dreams become dismay,

and all the hopes tomorrow held

lie felled by yesterday,

what can we do, where do we turn,

what can we say.

We hurt for what has happened

and we fear for what’s to come;

and easy consolation leaves us

negative and numb,

wondering whether deeper depths

are yet to plumb.

Oh, Christ, you lost control,

or so it seems, when to a tree

they nailed you and regaled you

and refused to set you free;

and all because you showed

how life was meant to be.

And shall our hopes, like you,

arise from where they ceased to be;

and shall the spirit that was crushed

be transformed and set free?

If that’s God’s will, then we await

what’s yet to be.