Silence

 

God, Your holiness hums and hovers in our life, especially this past week as we entered Your story of holy week.  We sang with the crowd, "Hosanna," which means, "save us".  We still sing that word with our soul because there are places, we need Your love to hold us and make us whole.  We pray for physical aches and pains, for those on hospice care, living with cancer, recovering after surgeries and hospital stays.  We pray for the emotional aches we have individually and communally.  We sat at the table with Christ on Maundy Thursday letting the story of broken bread and poured out juice meet us in places and people where we you’re your grace now more than ever.  Your story of how Jesus was betrayed, deserted, and denied connect to our world right now where anger and fear are emotions we feel.  We prayed in the garden with You, knowing well the words, "Let this cup pass from me."  This cup of overwhelm and exhaustion, not knowing what to do.  And we have cried the words, "My God why have You forsaken and forgotten me," with Christ from the cross.  And we will sit in silence with the messiness of Saturday today where resurrection and renewal seemed impractical and impossible.  Resurrecting, Eastering, Holy God move afresh and news in April in the hearts and lives of those who have the whole Holy Week experience in their life right now.  Resurrecting, Eastering, Holy God let Your love be a thread we feel woven into our hearts, lives, and relationships in this day.  All this we pray in the name of the One who we long to celebrate tomorrow with anthems sweet.  Alleluia and Amen.