floating from a sun-filled sky,
draping airy-white on flowered fields,
Your love astonished me.
No frilly show,
no assorted-chocolate pledge,
no candy hearts or silver kisses
disclosed your care for me;
But unsparing,
cross-bearing,
thorn-wearing love
that opened hands and feet and side
to spill your heart for me,
To recreate,
inundate my longing soul
with giving, holding, accepting,
enfolding love for me.
(photo by stux via pixabay.com)
This is so beautiful! It reflects the full duality of Jesus' crucifixion. The passages in the gospels recounting the arrest, trial, and crucifixion in the Gospels grieve and horrify me. And yet, as this communicates so well, he did, as my YeaYea would say, a beautiful thing for us. This captures it powerfully. Thank you! Debby Zignenis-Lowery
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