SEVENTH SATURDAY
Lamentations
3:37-58 (the Book of Common prayer lists no gospel reading for the day)
Is this your word for us, Sovereign One?
Are we left with this calamity, our hopes dashed on the stones of Golgotha? For
what sin is He punished?
We cannot avoid suffering too. Have we chosen
this by our long resistance, or our timid faith? Have You chased Him down, and
us with Him, in order to bring ruin?
Do You keep your anger wrapped around You?
Do You maintain a wall against all of our prayers? Are You not moved by our
tears?
We
could barely watch the slow agony of death. The cry of abandonment echoes
through us as though it had torn us open. How will we endure the days and weeks
and years in which our consciences pierce us as He was pierced?
Our lives are ruins! Our grief is an
abyss! We cry aloud to You, but we are left in the depths of our own darkness.
Will You answer, or are we abandoned forever?
NOTE: This is the final post for Lent. There will be an Easter Prayer tomorrow.
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