Day 39

"The Son of Man goes as it is written of him,

but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed!

It would have been better for that one

not to have been born."

Matthew 26:24

I find this day

uncomfortable

an eerie strangeness lingers

I feel myself just wanting to 

skip over 

Holy Saturday

and on to

Resurrection morning!

There is an emptiness to this day

as though He is not here

He is--

but symbolically

I seek to think as though

He's not

And to have actually lived through

that Holy Saturday

so many years ago

must have been

terribly lonely

and confusing

and frightening 

The disciples

the women

His mother

they would have been devoid

of the hope I have

that Sunday is coming!

 They would have had no reason to

make it to tomorrow's sunrise 

their heart's broken in sorrow

today