[Faith-Talk] for those celebrating Easter
Ericka
dotwriter1 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 5 13:13:36 UTC 2021
Nice Sandra! Blessed Easter🦋
Ericka Nelson
> On Apr 3, 2021, at 8:41 AM, Sandra Streeter via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Holy Saturday
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> Malcolm Guite
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> His spirit and his life he breathes in all
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> Now on this cross his body breathes no more
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> Here at the centre everything is still
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> Spent, and emptied, opened to the core.
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> A quiet taking down, a prising loose
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> A cross-beam lowered like a weighing scale
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> Unmaking of each thing that had its use
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> A long withdrawing of each bloodied nail,
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> This is ground zero, emptiness and space
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> With nothing left to say or think or do
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> But look unflinching on the sacred face
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> That cannot move or change or look at you.
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> Yet in that prising loose and letting be
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> He has unfastened you and set you free.
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> Sounding the Seasons; seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year, Canterbury
> Press 2012
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> https://lanciaesmith.com
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> Sandra
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> "May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the
> needs of others with kindness and compassion."
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> Thomas Jefferson
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