...were you there when the crucified our Lord?
Saturday was the Sabbath for Jesus' followers. This was a day of worship and nothing else... only on this Saturday what worship are they to do - and who are they to worship?
Imagine coming to worship tomorrow and the church is torn down - the community is scattered and hiding - the leadership in a worse state because one was killed, one killed himself, and the others were all caught in some state of denial and abandonment.
Would we worship amidst the ashes of our sacred landscape... could we?
And yet the habit formed in generations would not let you do anything else... and so we sit amidst the ashes and desolation - wondering where it all went wrong. Where did it all go wrong? Unable even to utter the next question... what happens now?
Were you there when they crucified our Lord?
Today we do not learn. We do not ask questions. We do not follow. Today we lament... today we imagine the ashes that are all too real for all too many people. Today we cry out for those whose hope has died... whose world grows cold - and barren.
Were you there when they crucified our Lord?
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