New Thing- Good Friday Observances & Haiku
Inspiration: Good Friday
Time: All day
Bottom Line: "Where the whole realm of nature mine, that still an offering far to small."
Reflection: Today is Good Friday, the most somber and solemn day of the year. It is the day that we contemplate the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross where he died for our sins. A day set aside for (what can only be described as) holy grief. This morning, I joined with several parishioners who were ending their night long vigil and Frank in the Old Church for Morning Prayer and to consume the reserve sacrament. Later, the entire family went to the noon service and then I went to the 7pm. The whole day was both beautiful and sorrowful as it always is.
As this is the day when we contemplate the way all of creation and the whole realm of nature was reconciled back to God through the cross, I decided to write a haiku for the day since that mode of poetry often deals with nature. Jesus took natural form and died as all creature do, so it seemed fiting to use this style.
Good Friday Haiku
Curtain torn in two.
Oh My God, what have we done?!
Salvation's blood pours.
The Collect for Good Friday:
Almighty God, we pray you graciously to behold
this your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be
betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon
the cross; who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one
God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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