Wednesday, the Second Week of Lent
The television set keeps on babbling
flashing pictures
right there in a frosty glass
just a swallow away.
“Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”
Jesus says
and we say we can
thinking of the good life to come
the coolness after a hot and weary day on the job
all the trials and heartaches
washed down in one deep swallow away.
“This is the cup of my blood
It will be shed for you and for all peoples
that sin be forgiven.”
“Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?”
Perhaps we can
perhaps in this Lenten season
as we gather in the memory
of our fallen brother Jesus
perhaps the memory of him does take on our flesh
move our lips to say we can
move our hands to take the cup of his blood
and drink to whatever may come.
What a change it is
drinking to remember
instead of to forget
and in so doing we become the memory of Jesus
alive his blood is flowing in our veins
his flesh covers the hollowness we are.
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