Holy Week Diary — April 7, 2023
from A SoulWerker Hosted by A SoulWerker
The reflection is drawn from Isaiah 52:13-53:12. Here are the two sonnets by Malcolm Guite mentioned in today’s recording: See, as they strip the robe from off his back And spread his arms and nail them to the cross, The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black, And love is firmly fastened onto loss. But here a pure change happens. On this tree Loss becomes gain, death opens into birth. Here wounding heals and fastening makes free Earth breathes in heaven, heaven roots in earth. And here we see the length, the breadth, the height Where love and hatred meet and love stays true Where sin meets grace and darkness turns to light We see what love can bear and be and do, And here our saviour calls us to his side His love is free, his arms are open wide. The dark nails pierce him and the sky turns black We watch him as he labours to draw breath He takes our breath away to give it back, Return it to it’s birth through his slow death. We hear him struggle breathing through the pain Who once breathed out his spirit on the deep, Who formed us when he mixed the dust with rain And drew us into consciousness from sleep. His spirit and his life he breathes in all Mantles his world in his one atmosphere And now he comes to breathe beneath the pall Of our pollutions, draw our injured air To cleanse it and renew. His final breath Breathes us, and bears us through the gates of death.
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