April 12, 2017

• Looking Empty

  Solemn holy week is here
  Frivolities repress
  Pray our sins redress
  Death’s visit no longer fear

  Christ died for us upon the cross
  Sins confess
  Release heart’s distress
  Eternal life is not a loss

  Of the sacrificial lamb take note
  Willingly he died
  Tears of blood he cried
  Of him prophecy wrote

  The tomb could not hold
  Truth couldn’t be denied
  His body was not inside
  Salvation we behold

  This is an envelope rhyme where there is a 4 line stanza and the 1st and 4th lines rhyme with a rhyming couplet sandwiched between. It does not have a limit to the number of stanzas except it should be more than one...

  Today is the last day before we start the Easter Triduum or three days that start the evening of Holy Thursday and continue to the evening of Easter Sunday. This week we are asked to remember the spotless victim, the life and death of the Messiah that had to happen to ensure our salvation and the promised eternal life. There are Christmas Christians and Easter Christians. I count myself as an Easter Christian. The birth of the Christ is wonderful and joyous and miraculous. Yet it isn't his birth that secures our salvation but his death and resurrection. As an Easter Christian I follow the path to the Crucifixion, mingle my tears with those at the foot of the cross, enter the tomb, and then rejoice when the angel announces that he has risen! All the promises are kept and I can truly celebrate. Christmas celebration pales in comparison to the Easter rejoicing... but right now I'm considering this difficult journey and putting one foot in front of the other.

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