Today I’m reposting the nonets for Ash Wednesday and Maudy Thursday and adding one for Good Friday.

 

Ash Wednesday

 

The Yous and Mes of eternity,

we all must dig out the dirty truth.

Life begins and ends in dust.

Pride, wealth, and life itself

won’t last, must collapse.

From ashes to

ashes we

all fall 

down.

 

Maundy Thursday

 

But 

the One

who creates

paints our door posts,

then invites us in

to eat with him in peace.

Body and blood, bread and wine,

our lives swallowed up in His love,

our lives swallowed up in each other.

 

Good Friday

 

Palm branches trampled, the crowd dispersed,

our Lord stripped, striped, and crowned with thorns

carried His cross and my sins.

Innocent, yet condemned,

nailed, pierced, thirsty,

He forgave me 

as He was

hung to

die.