tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32175460181567189822024-03-18T17:59:36.861-04:00Maude's PoemsA collection of poems by another poet after God's own heart...Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.comBlogger1143125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-44743452025877298562024-03-18T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-18T00:00:00.137-04:00"He Refused"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a 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REFUSED<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">They mocked<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and struck and spat and stripped<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and drove spikes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">through His hands and feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">One offered wine and myrrh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to take the pointed edge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">off the Excruciation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Savior<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">peered down<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">through kind, hot eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">pursed His parched lips<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and shook His bleeding head.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He chose...<i>chose!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to bear the fullness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of the sin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">that nailed Him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to those crude<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">crossed beams;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">chose </span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to drink<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the brimming chalice dry,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">chose </span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to pay the full price,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">without bargain or barter,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">without wholesaling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">or discounting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">or quibbling<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">or niggling it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of its terrible,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">priceless<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Value.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Maude Carolan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpHa7o74wFO55-PWwg39vtnUxwkS1ZpIo_ErUXE5rnVVqq2ZVWPLNWUadPKezyYi8mM4loYyDne7zHlNEgWhS8zTtoBVzrQ7U4VnteC2BKlAAEQcjMmgvTK0cyd-e2dz2OxSQnoUg9JZ4DbtKzajiBM_Wk3kHk9mNzL6szk8GZMH1jdJVt-Fb6JJ4DZ6M/s202/Maude&BTLP-TotLib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="136" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmpHa7o74wFO55-PWwg39vtnUxwkS1ZpIo_ErUXE5rnVVqq2ZVWPLNWUadPKezyYi8mM4loYyDne7zHlNEgWhS8zTtoBVzrQ7U4VnteC2BKlAAEQcjMmgvTK0cyd-e2dz2OxSQnoUg9JZ4DbtKzajiBM_Wk3kHk9mNzL6szk8GZMH1jdJVt-Fb6JJ4DZ6M/s1600/Maude&BTLP-TotLib.jpg" width="136" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">When my book was first published,</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I read some of the poems</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">at the Totowa (NJ) Public Library.</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">"Behold the Lamb...<i>poetically!"</i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">by Maude Carolan Pych</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">is available online</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-68530624704024529682024-03-17T00:00:00.008-04:002024-03-17T00:00:00.301-04:00"It Pleased The Lord to Crush Him"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3aZcj6JNe-mVPfd8uoLETTle18A8kT7D9lm_sOLdiFnr74fB9osUAulP5R6M41nOrSnFGmtGHo5EGRFFPR7XNUJ7rYUvJKIKM-zRWSO168hn1EsVIW1G1HnBNzGlAs6TUJ-4UpmQBUOFvY5pB6l8mgAidQSNU8QRtSdb0hir6JK3gxqL_ryYm3xbjV5Vx/s251/JesusCrucified%20artCOM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="201" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3aZcj6JNe-mVPfd8uoLETTle18A8kT7D9lm_sOLdiFnr74fB9osUAulP5R6M41nOrSnFGmtGHo5EGRFFPR7XNUJ7rYUvJKIKM-zRWSO168hn1EsVIW1G1HnBNzGlAs6TUJ-4UpmQBUOFvY5pB6l8mgAidQSNU8QRtSdb0hir6JK3gxqL_ryYm3xbjV5Vx/s1600/JesusCrucified%20artCOM.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><p style="font-size: x-large; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><h1 style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">IT
PLEASED THE LORD TO CRUSH HIM</span><a href="file:///G:/Poems/IT%20PLEASED%20THE%20LORD%20TO%20CRUSH%20HIM.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When
I applied stinging iodine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to
the tender knees of my children<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">or
a corrective spank<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">or
a hug to assuage a broken heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I
remember that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">their
wounds, hurts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">even
the chastisements<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">probably
wounded me more than them –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Why,
I would've become a she-lion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">poised
to pounce and mangle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">bruisers
of my own –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">yet
the very God I know as Love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">was
pleased to crush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">was
delighted to bruise<a href="file:///G:/Poems/IT%20PLEASED%20THE%20LORD%20TO%20CRUSH%20HIM.doc#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His
Very Own<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So,
<i>I shudder</i>, convinced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">God's
ways are infinitely higher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">than
my finite mind can grasp – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">for
God stayed His almighty hand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">held
His almighty tongue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">waited
it out in His Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">pleased,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">even delighted</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to
give His Only Son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">innocent,
docile as a lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to
be mocked, bruised, spat upon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">crowned
with thorn branches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">stripped
and nailed naked to a tree – <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">yes,
pleased and delighted was He<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">as
the Most Precious Blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">of
His Only Son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">rained
like rubies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">upon
the ground<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pleased
and delighted <i>am I<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">that
the God Who so loves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">crushed
and bruised<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">His
Very Own<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">for me<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1 style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maude Carolan</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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53:10 , "Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible"</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"></span></span></div><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-74090522312346564182024-03-16T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-16T00:00:00.255-04:00"Pilate's Irony"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCl9bDpFxkGCNSjtHa_xPPIYlXuROtbdVxhi8QKn16p2UlrzQwzjBwpkhyphenhyphenJ8BgHGXfg9KQk5B1ue88jhIhYYDWPcQ74JWvG8jP7SsEyDHsdS0B0yPxn85R1VPjPeRAO0IgjpMupsIo3TwMAOIf3X0u_ai_9FgybyrSSjOb3BGR49nk2wUfn3yRtmzhUGKX/s282/Pontius%20Pilate%20inscription%20alamyCOM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="179" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCl9bDpFxkGCNSjtHa_xPPIYlXuROtbdVxhi8QKn16p2UlrzQwzjBwpkhyphenhyphenJ8BgHGXfg9KQk5B1ue88jhIhYYDWPcQ74JWvG8jP7SsEyDHsdS0B0yPxn85R1VPjPeRAO0IgjpMupsIo3TwMAOIf3X0u_ai_9FgybyrSSjOb3BGR49nk2wUfn3yRtmzhUGKX/s1600/Pontius%20Pilate%20inscription%20alamyCOM.jpg" width="179" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pontius Pilate inscription</span><br /><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">PILATE’S IRONY</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">During
my first pilgrimage to Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">archeologist
and guide, Micha Ashkenazi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">took
us to Caesarea to view a replica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
a piece of limestone <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">partially
inscribed with the name <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pontius Pilatus<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Micha
had been a member of the team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
unearthed the stone there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">during
a dig in 1961<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It
is the only evidence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
the historical existence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
the Roman governor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">outside
the New Testament<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
writings of Josephus Flavius<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Interesting,
Pilate, who may have given<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a
modicum of credence to his wife’s warning <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
have nothing to do with Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">did
make an abysmal effort<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
prevent the crucifixion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">by
setting Barabbas <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">before
the riled multitude<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
the crowd shouted to free Barabbas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
called for death to Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">their
chants of <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Crucify Him! Crucify
Him!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">drummed
in his ears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pilate
asked for a basin of water<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">He
washed his hands in front of them—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as
if water could possibly cleanse him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
responsibility for what would happen next<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
irony is that even now<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">thousands of years
hence<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">contempt
for this man is as clear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">as
his name etched in stone—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for
wherever believers gather<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
proclaim their creed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">suffered under
Pontius Pilate<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">was crucified, dead
and buried…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pilate’s
guilt is an indelible stain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
can never be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">washed
from our minds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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TAKER</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jesus
gave Judas Iscariot the opportunity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">or
should I say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the privilege</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
becoming one of His twelve apostles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">gave
him an important responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
being the treasurer of their group<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
keeper of the moneybag<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">even
though it was no secret<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Judas
helped himself to some coins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
time to time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jesus
gave Judas example—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Personifying
love, Jesus <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">ministered
to His followers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">taught
the Beatitudes and how to pray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">He
raised the dead and fed the multitudes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">before
the apostle’s very eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">At
the same time Satan was wooing Judas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">cunningly
whispering in his ear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">planting
seeds of deception<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">so
when the chief priests and elders<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">offered
thirty pieces of gleaming silver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">for
Judas to turn Jesus over to them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">his
avarice was satisfied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">At
the Passover meal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Jesus
humbly washed the apostle’s feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
gave him a dipped morsel of bread<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
His very own hand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Judas
took it all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
took Satan into himself, as well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Their
diabolical worst was wrought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">That
evening, in the Garden of Gethsemane<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">following
Jesus’ great travail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Judas
appeared with a Roman cohort<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">He
directed them to seize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
person he would approach and kiss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">then
he stepped forward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">called
Jesus, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rabbi<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
with a kiss, betrayed Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh!
It certainly would’ve been better for Judas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">had
he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> been born<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-38158309123088299872024-03-14T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-14T00:00:00.288-04:00"Paces of a Lamb"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3yvVEb95poUkgXJmmXIVbDWKlQxACgd5dB-ojNFgvSZk9TxsvnRabhAdi7Vcn3BpG4lM0wQoRZNp8rv5FThyphenhyphen2MHcCfQnLm0rN7aVJ3Gp_ZG8wmzbrmYlh_gRJBT7w2CvGm1RL4spoSw1Hbijy0fMvqLMXkZChVchhvLSWZn0cd3gzzblseJg47tz3WOd/s640/lamb%20to%20slaughter%20keziaomindeWORDPRESScom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3yvVEb95poUkgXJmmXIVbDWKlQxACgd5dB-ojNFgvSZk9TxsvnRabhAdi7Vcn3BpG4lM0wQoRZNp8rv5FThyphenhyphen2MHcCfQnLm0rN7aVJ3Gp_ZG8wmzbrmYlh_gRJBT7w2CvGm1RL4spoSw1Hbijy0fMvqLMXkZChVchhvLSWZn0cd3gzzblseJg47tz3WOd/s320/lamb%20to%20slaughter%20keziaomindeWORDPRESScom.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /><i><br /></i></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><h1><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><span style="font-size: medium;">PACES OF A LAMB</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">"He
was led like a lamb to the slaughter,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">and
as a sheep before her shearers is silent,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">so
he did not open his mouth." Isaiah 53:7 N.I.V.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Father Bob
drained the cup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">and replaced
the cover<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">on the brass
pyx of Hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Communion
over<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">the two old
friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">settled back <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">in their
kitchen chairs <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">A natural
storyteller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Leo began to
reminisce<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">about Mr.
Sattel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">his neighbor
in Roselle Park<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">in the 1940s
–<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">the best
bologna maker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">at the pork
store nearby<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Eventually
the neighbor <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">purchased
some farmland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">and moved to
Penn's Grove<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">where he
built a slaughterhouse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Leo spent
time there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">the summer
between grammar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">and high
school<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">He had
watched Mr. Sattel subdue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">fat squealing
hogs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">and tenacious
bulls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Saw him and
his helpers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">pull
resisting livestock<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">by a rope fed
through a nose ring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">to another
ring in the floor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">where
struggling animals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">were
systematically <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">slaughtered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">one at a time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Mr. Sattel
grew hardened<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">even provoked
to anger<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">by the
tugging and digging in of hooves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">amid the
ominous odor of blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">which roused
the desperate instinct<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">against death
–<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">The grueling
labor of slaughter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">left him no
energy for grief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">but his steel
eyes glazed over<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">one muggy
afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">when he told
Leo,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">"I
did a lamb once.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<h2><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">It walked right alongside me</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">up the
ramp.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">I'll
never <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">do it <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">again."<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">An edgy
silence followed –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">silent as
paces of a lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">There they
sat, two white-haired friends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">washed by the
shed blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">of One Docile
Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Who walked
Calvary's ramp<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">two thousand
years ago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maude Carolan</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Would you like to read more poems?</span></span></div><div><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMvXQ8DVuI-VTFYMwVghg18pJqttIlrvhBHjvB1iLdQbYMMM0D-OLxI9K_nCs9MeIFn7RNEm952jf1_BnYGRYYqsLGBGreucBbJPiXM7r7UCxBpOWxmHXtPCELXfQ8vqJsRFwWknvS-2ouExiDra3ooVaeSM8YSN3ifZjA5M0b8ANO0TDftv04azyxN3Z/s320/Maude's%20books.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="310" data-original-width="320" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMvXQ8DVuI-VTFYMwVghg18pJqttIlrvhBHjvB1iLdQbYMMM0D-OLxI9K_nCs9MeIFn7RNEm952jf1_BnYGRYYqsLGBGreucBbJPiXM7r7UCxBpOWxmHXtPCELXfQ8vqJsRFwWknvS-2ouExiDra3ooVaeSM8YSN3ifZjA5M0b8ANO0TDftv04azyxN3Z/s1600/Maude's%20books.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;">Scroll down to see how to order Maude's</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">memoir in poetry, <i>Wonderhoods.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Behold the Lamb...poetically!</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">is available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">www.maudecarolanpych.net</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i></i></b></span><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-83192076589778277062024-03-13T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-13T00:00:00.202-04:00"A Better Idea"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">Every year I have a standing order at Bromilow's,</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">the premier chocolatier near where I live, for 20 dark chocolate lambs.</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">A lamb is what I give my children and grandchildren every Easter.</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">You can do that, or</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: medium;">here is another suggestion, because...</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">It's all about The Lamb!</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfXsG1PFnimsr-4ZJ-Pc2i9z_mktQgc2TmKXODbJzro9wPxcLq-z_ghxhu4C0uIw-MwaCNpk34sqh2sh0lNtIeox8WZ_OuxemWeJn13Q7cgT8ws8ayveqCxpw1B3HqHeHOFGH3ibiPJfkBOoQzTDvFGS5obDgzFtf9gYgXa9TGTt2_Sgg-1UgRB7ToR4vo/s235/LambPlush%20speaktomecatalogCOM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="215" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfXsG1PFnimsr-4ZJ-Pc2i9z_mktQgc2TmKXODbJzro9wPxcLq-z_ghxhu4C0uIw-MwaCNpk34sqh2sh0lNtIeox8WZ_OuxemWeJn13Q7cgT8ws8ayveqCxpw1B3HqHeHOFGH3ibiPJfkBOoQzTDvFGS5obDgzFtf9gYgXa9TGTt2_Sgg-1UgRB7ToR4vo/s1600/LambPlush%20speaktomecatalogCOM.jpg" width="215" /></a></i></b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><b><i><br /></i></b></i></b></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A BETTER
IDEA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It's a better idea than spring
baskets,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">with jelly beans, mallows and
bows;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it's far better than flowery
straw bonnets,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mary Janes and brand new clothes,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a much better idea than bunnies
and chicks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">eggs painted pink, purple, blue…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This time let us give our sweet
children<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; tab-stops: 323.25pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">an Easter gift that will ring true.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s give a plush lamb, all
spotless and pure<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and tell them Jesus is its name…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell them Jesus is the Hope of
the World<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and Easter's the reason He came.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell them God's Son is sinless
and meek<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He's the unblemished Passover
Lamb;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">tell them He died on Calvary's
Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to save sinners. He's the great I
Am.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell them that on the first
Easter morning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lamb Jesus arose from the grave –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and that is why in their tiny
hands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">is the soft little lamb that you
gave.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell them Lord Jesus loves them
so much<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that He wants to be their Best
Friend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their little lamb will remind
them of Him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">after Resurrection Day ends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell them chocolate bunnies,
bonnets and beans<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">are okay, but not the best part –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the best part of Easter is Jesus,
the Lamb,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who came to live in their hearts!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;">Maude Carolan<o:p></o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiheB7P-AwxeqEBmBx0U-3b1sGraAbR2lFnJxo6oBFb7-BXmvowHcpDi6rKRRkRXx7ZtR7RrnjOAkBos-AbBHkJaLwTnsUCTcXU-Bir-qS1yIGW4DimppCo_SJPhgirRNRCiTbKOy4tuZZwnsNwwXxRXrq5kahyHviXezbssl5qWVu8YRc6Ol5rzyr2Squ3/s224/About%20the%20Lamb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="160" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiheB7P-AwxeqEBmBx0U-3b1sGraAbR2lFnJxo6oBFb7-BXmvowHcpDi6rKRRkRXx7ZtR7RrnjOAkBos-AbBHkJaLwTnsUCTcXU-Bir-qS1yIGW4DimppCo_SJPhgirRNRCiTbKOy4tuZZwnsNwwXxRXrq5kahyHviXezbssl5qWVu8YRc6Ol5rzyr2Squ3/s1600/About%20the%20Lamb.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">
<b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-80412545416216951082024-03-12T00:00:00.003-04:002024-03-12T00:00:00.151-04:00"The Heart-Wrenching Cry"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHwN1Re4UV40jcN5TmKSV6Ks_ldUvkon_sGHXV-1X7-j8UXOhazCVoAJlMVl_XR-yG2b5anXTdElbioSqzT3tOf9kdR3y16q-doMTbL9xAYahtQWQY2zcei4hyZQGyzxahh6CuyBtT9a_Jm-37PY8XWyHEHMwtflLmZx-uxbhliFGJ1qauTm5PRbkFNn-/s259/Crucifixion%20youtubeCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHwN1Re4UV40jcN5TmKSV6Ks_ldUvkon_sGHXV-1X7-j8UXOhazCVoAJlMVl_XR-yG2b5anXTdElbioSqzT3tOf9kdR3y16q-doMTbL9xAYahtQWQY2zcei4hyZQGyzxahh6CuyBtT9a_Jm-37PY8XWyHEHMwtflLmZx-uxbhliFGJ1qauTm5PRbkFNn-/s1600/Crucifixion%20youtubeCOM.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: youtube.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><span style="font-size: medium;">THE HEART-WRENCHING
CRY </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh,
I am sure God heard it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">as
He sat with His head in His hands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">on
the edge of His great golden throne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">moments
away from Victory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">This
wasn’t the cry of physical pain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
crucifixion nails<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">pressing
against Jesus’ pierced flesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">No,
this was different—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">This
was the cry of…Abba, where are You?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
utterance that shot from Earth to Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
the One He was One with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
all eternity—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Why hast Thou
forsaken Me?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">This
was the wuthering wail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
despair’s deepest depth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">as
sin of all the world fell upon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
One who had never sinned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">This
echoed Satan’s final snarl before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Atonement’s
Hallelujah!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 67.5pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 67.5pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and the Blood-washed expiation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
my sin and yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
all sin past and present<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">sin of those yet unborn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">those not yet conceived<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">sin of those who would not be born<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">for centuries and millenniums<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">This was the heart-wrenching cry before<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It is
finished!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the nod <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of Jesus’ thorn-crowned head<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and His Father’s most solemn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Amen!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">in Glory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwcBHRhoOfABYhkAvsIt2_BQr_aM6oJqUJ8WD3I7tG1xOsE1FpREKVA6z_6oi8XNvIB_Dn_BsoDlQIKEbWFj424H2oMYClTN2ALOkuLs2EbMtACO3yd_bw-yr-kuFRJbkR7v-IS9VudBxHww0xqB5aOFTqXmyg1ctwqB9vEXMelyIIJJOh-LiH25nxjdzm/s320/Maude-Behold2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="269" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwcBHRhoOfABYhkAvsIt2_BQr_aM6oJqUJ8WD3I7tG1xOsE1FpREKVA6z_6oi8XNvIB_Dn_BsoDlQIKEbWFj424H2oMYClTN2ALOkuLs2EbMtACO3yd_bw-yr-kuFRJbkR7v-IS9VudBxHww0xqB5aOFTqXmyg1ctwqB9vEXMelyIIJJOh-LiH25nxjdzm/w168-h200/Maude-Behold2.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;">Would you like to read more poems?</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;">"Behold the Lamb..<i>.poetically!"</i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;">by Maude Carolan Pych</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;">is available online</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;">at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 90.75pt; text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-11966402027916943982024-03-11T00:00:00.001-04:002024-03-11T00:00:00.208-04:00"Holy Face"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt-09tgz_XQKOK2yYOlznQo13M9_mt9oxhxjmRdaUhEX_zF4RoLOulGgJtA-PT-5S28xEmAZ0i9HOCDbRk6u_ZxmsLiZ-zkN74ORZOVr8t908MaVi7J1JkCs7bApn-jx5epDkxRxb4uS0D3q-9bw1PIVXR6w1wYll-EJocZXeA8SW1Nbd4K13t4foWnzBR/s268/Shroud%20conservapediaCOM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="188" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt-09tgz_XQKOK2yYOlznQo13M9_mt9oxhxjmRdaUhEX_zF4RoLOulGgJtA-PT-5S28xEmAZ0i9HOCDbRk6u_ZxmsLiZ-zkN74ORZOVr8t908MaVi7J1JkCs7bApn-jx5epDkxRxb4uS0D3q-9bw1PIVXR6w1wYll-EJocZXeA8SW1Nbd4K13t4foWnzBR/s1600/Shroud%20conservapediaCOM.jpg" width="188" /></a></b></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; page-break-after: avoid;"><b><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HOLY FACE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">When I look
upon Your Visage<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">and pierced,
bruised Body <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">imprinted upon
the winding sheet,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">and contemplate<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">wounds You bore
for me,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">it causes me to
quiver<i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">with reverence
and awe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">After two
millennia<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">I witness Your
Passion<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">mapped out<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">on a white
linen proof-sheet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Controversy has
abounded<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">about the
authenticity<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">of this ancient
Shroud of Turin;<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">I leave it to
greater minds<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">than mine to
ponder. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">As for me,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">in my spirit I
know,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">it is<i> </i>You, my Lord.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Amazing. I can
look<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">upon the
negative<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">that’s positive<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">and actually
see Your Face,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Your beautiful
Holy Face,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">suspended from
Its Divine Agony<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">and interlude
with death<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">when Your
Majestic Imprint<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">burst upon the
burial cloth.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Death sprang to
Life<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">in that
timeless flash-moment<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">of
Resurrection. <i>Glorious!</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Lord, I see
Strength,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">unimaginable
Endurance,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">but even more,
Peace<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">and the
Countenance<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">of Unsurpassed
Love.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Others may
debate carbon dating.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Let them
scrutinize and snip,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">analyze in test
tubes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">on smeared
slides under microscopes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">and beneath
glaring, blaring lights<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">until Your
Second Coming!<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">As for me,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">when I gaze
into the negative<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">that’s positive<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">burnished
miraculously <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">into that Holy
Shroud<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">at the <i>Climax</i> of all time,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">I accept with
simple faith,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">it is You, my
Lord.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 1; page-break-after: avoid;">Maude Carolan<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;">
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Did He turn away?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Did His tears pour down as the blood ran down?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Did He pound His fist?
Scream?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What was God doing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What was He thinking<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">high up in His Heaven<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">when His Son cried, “Why...hast Thou...forsaken Me?”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Victory was so close.
Did He almost change His mind?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What was God doing?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What was He thinking<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">high up in His Heaven<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">when it finally was finished?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Was His heavy heart throbbing<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">as He darkened the sky and quaked the dry earth,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">opened old graves. and breathed life into the dead?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Was it with grief or great jubilation<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">that He tore asunder the curtain to the Holy of Holies?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What oh what was God thinking<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">at that great Climax of climaxes<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">with Satan and sin squashed under His heel,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">and after the Ascension,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">at Their glorious reunion,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">did Father and Son<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">dance the Hora in Highest Heaven?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Maude Carolan<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyWeIcgsCju2Nkj_OuU2p1GL6ILLtuObfV4xoZtn_g_VMlBRIhSeBP8hOpgQP5ufT6uT8u_1gpgMClTVYJQRiMHWkjQ0FM6rgeRwTKfFtUt_Vl2Ve_3eFT6n0z-6W4myXCbFEMidoqqKkK6ayMQECIz6iFfV5ffMPFYagTCBDutsTxFquntzJUO2DhPI1/s552/BTLP%20Maude%20Book.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="449" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidyWeIcgsCju2Nkj_OuU2p1GL6ILLtuObfV4xoZtn_g_VMlBRIhSeBP8hOpgQP5ufT6uT8u_1gpgMClTVYJQRiMHWkjQ0FM6rgeRwTKfFtUt_Vl2Ve_3eFT6n0z-6W4myXCbFEMidoqqKkK6ayMQECIz6iFfV5ffMPFYagTCBDutsTxFquntzJUO2DhPI1/s320/BTLP%20Maude%20Book.png" width="260" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">"Behold the Lamb...<i>poetically!"</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">by Maude Carolan Pych</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">is available online at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-53700905340644493392024-03-09T00:00:00.001-05:002024-03-09T00:00:00.148-05:00"Behold the Man"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMK1azrhMaa4UpNQrdFmoqYO6iMPRwDV3TQEPXTXckqnGB47t4o9yQeoDA2uxE-lJ3u_4NXwh9gaL6h0qZmwXgSdp-n6JCdyGqMUDMLMecnYuY9WIQc0qQCxIbE9c__lGm3pcy0ZmFeMGnHsEICSPitECp2J3Dd7TbelhTD8uS8fvedNSRYLAGh6Vnsei/s279/Behold%20the%20Man.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="279" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMK1azrhMaa4UpNQrdFmoqYO6iMPRwDV3TQEPXTXckqnGB47t4o9yQeoDA2uxE-lJ3u_4NXwh9gaL6h0qZmwXgSdp-n6JCdyGqMUDMLMecnYuY9WIQc0qQCxIbE9c__lGm3pcy0ZmFeMGnHsEICSPitECp2J3Dd7TbelhTD8uS8fvedNSRYLAGh6Vnsei/s1600/Behold%20the%20Man.JPG" width="279" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">BEHOLD THE MAN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Good Friday, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">There’s an archway in
Jerusalem, engraved with the words, “Ecce Homo,” which represents the place
where Pontius Pilate paraded Jesus, bloody and bedraggled, before the hostile
crowd, and exclaimed, “Behold the Man!”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I. Behold Him:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The King of
all kings, downcast<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">among those
He came to save<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">wearing a
robe, stained crimson<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">crowned with twisted
thorns<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">clenching a
brittle reed—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">His royal scepter<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">in His royal
right hand<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">as Blood
trickles<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">down His brow<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">spittle
drips<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">down His chin<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">His eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">are puffed
and dazed<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">His strength,
gone<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">He stands <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">amid those He
loves<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">mocked, scourged,
silent<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">silent as a docile
lamb<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">He
is the Docile Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">The multitude<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">cry
out in unison<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Crucify Him!<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Soldiers lead
Him<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">stumbling and
falling<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">to the crucifixion
site<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the ominous Place
of the Skull—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">They pound sharp
nails <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">through cringing
flesh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and post the
charge<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">above His thorn-crowned
head<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">further mocking
Him<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">with<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Truth—<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the King of the Jews<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">II. Behold
Him<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the
fullness of time<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">This Once
Mocked King will return<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">crowned with beauty
and majesty<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">to reign—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">hallowed with
Hallelujahs<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and Hosannas<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Multitudes will
gaze<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">with wondrous
awe<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">upon the Risen
One <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">the One they pierced,
returned<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">A
multitude of knees <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">will
kneel upon the ground<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">as countless tongues
proclaim<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">with
resounding adoration:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jesus
is Lord!<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and this once
ridiculed, bedraggled<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">crucified Savior
King<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">will
be hailed in Heaven and on Earth <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">by
men and angels<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">as Our King
of all kings forever—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">and ever and
ever<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">with
Alleluias earnest <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">…at
last!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maude Carolan
Pych</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"></span></span></div><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-90931373590559383742024-03-08T00:00:00.002-05:002024-03-08T00:04:31.668-05:00"Sometimes My Own Words Make Me Weep"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnUZnwUuxvx4aN8UJuVI6Fu0rPGe9fMm9XiwU0mnWwP5y1ML4YwWePzHfZTj14xxxO4SMPxQBH2Kl7fXRCxzIIpnCOTHz6lWOzIYDyl9SEaOl7oA_4VxTRPGmNl8jI10eGgnpNJv5nkuOZI3cVcP9AunurHe-TSABVlaBT3IPDPjYA2z-OqPebevgetYZ/s270/Pieta%20excerptsofinriCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="270" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDnUZnwUuxvx4aN8UJuVI6Fu0rPGe9fMm9XiwU0mnWwP5y1ML4YwWePzHfZTj14xxxO4SMPxQBH2Kl7fXRCxzIIpnCOTHz6lWOzIYDyl9SEaOl7oA_4VxTRPGmNl8jI10eGgnpNJv5nkuOZI3cVcP9AunurHe-TSABVlaBT3IPDPjYA2z-OqPebevgetYZ/s1600/Pieta%20excerptsofinriCOM.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: excerptsofinri.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">SOMETIMES MY OWN
WORDS MAKE ME WEEP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">On reading my poem,
“The Pieta,” on Good Friday<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
find an image on the internet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
download it to use with a poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m
planning to post on my blog today<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
Good Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
picture is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">a
heart-wrenching depiction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
Mary embracing the dead body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
her Son, just taken down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
the Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It
pairs well<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">with
my poem, “The Pieta”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">As
usual, I re-read the words<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">before
posting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">to
check if anything<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">needs
to be changed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
read about Mary removing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
crown of thorns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
Jesus’ head<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
bits of thorn needles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">still
stuck in His lifeless flesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
read of her weeping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
speaking to Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
kissing His still warm face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
as I read<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">tears
well in my own eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
begin trickling down my face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m
a mother, too—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
have a son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">With
immense sorrow <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
imagine how it must have been<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">for
the mother of Our Savior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">that
Good Friday afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">her
most agonizing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">moment
in time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSh8KKbpQC24-ZMPPRIOwGMOZ23ENt7FivlaaA_m1bPmRFU9wKNaBuY36Gaxpd61wb7pU4788y7LOBJcLBXN4j2GG-69VlaVUWO-jZcziGfmDSC1THhOD2kLk_x4wbVeYVHhEhWtd4PflGJP8A3mODDDo0NMuGDRRnZTTdU0GOWtEqVeZJBE_kyCaZEX0c/s320/BTLP%20at%20B&N%202020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSh8KKbpQC24-ZMPPRIOwGMOZ23ENt7FivlaaA_m1bPmRFU9wKNaBuY36Gaxpd61wb7pU4788y7LOBJcLBXN4j2GG-69VlaVUWO-jZcziGfmDSC1THhOD2kLk_x4wbVeYVHhEhWtd4PflGJP8A3mODDDo0NMuGDRRnZTTdU0GOWtEqVeZJBE_kyCaZEX0c/s1600/BTLP%20at%20B&N%202020.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Here is a photo I took of my book</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">at Barnes & Noble, Woodland Park, NJ,</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">soonafter its release.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">To order, "Behold the Lamb...<i>poetically!"</i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">you'll find it available online at Barnes & Noble,</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Amazon, CBD, etc.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-27454780349607138062024-03-07T00:00:00.002-05:002024-03-07T00:01:08.113-05:00The Passover Lamb<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ09V3Vl8oZHjfOVn9fN_UZMWzAWSLK17TFgT_8YkYabbXxgIPxYZ72OK_CEN50q7o3-Ioiu5USj3hkLpv4BEZUnHxwhDNwQMFlv9g2Qngjs8t-V4AEyD0hLT4Ingot2MPXsanTZuAbVpYm-bDoL1BjHBzcSKqbMkZTbPUY6mu4zP0BTVzlZDmvbgTTuH2/s900/Lamb%20by%20Angel%20Ciesniarska.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="899" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ09V3Vl8oZHjfOVn9fN_UZMWzAWSLK17TFgT_8YkYabbXxgIPxYZ72OK_CEN50q7o3-Ioiu5USj3hkLpv4BEZUnHxwhDNwQMFlv9g2Qngjs8t-V4AEyD0hLT4Ingot2MPXsanTZuAbVpYm-bDoL1BjHBzcSKqbMkZTbPUY6mu4zP0BTVzlZDmvbgTTuH2/s320/Lamb%20by%20Angel%20Ciesniarska.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Lamb" by Angel Ciesniarska</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">THE
PASSOVER LAMB</span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Abba went into the sheepfold to
choose a spotless lamb,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">as Moses gave instructions that he
got from the I Am.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Our lamb, indeed, was spotless, so I
named him Wooly Bright;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">we brought him inside to live with
us, morning, noon and night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I ran my fingers through his coat and
fed him from my hand,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I put fresh water in his trough; he’s
the best lamb in the land!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Today he’ll be our sacrifice. Moses
said this must be done.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He must die that I may live, for I’m
a firstborn son.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We’ve been oppressed by slavery;
Pharaoh will not let us go,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">but God’s mighty arm will save us.
We’ll watch His power flow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Moses told us, take lamb’s blood, and
brush it on the lintel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">then we will be protected; it almost
sounds too simple.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tonight we will leave Egypt and
journey far from home,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">but I’ll remember Wooly Bright
wherever I may roam.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Someday
the world will see in this, God’s salvation plan;<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">God’s
Son will be the sacrifice, the great Passover Lamb!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For
as God will use blood of lambs to set His people free,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the
precious Blood of Jesus will save sinners…you and me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: center;">
Maude
Carolan Pych </p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-15650281440555081782024-03-06T00:00:00.022-05:002024-03-06T00:00:00.287-05:00"Better For Him Had He Not Been Born"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTtRVi2-e7Y08Xjj0ehsJVDMiFL79zULCddDl6E5Or_iIHo1AC13vzjUV9x7y_TCKuv1gJ0kHLPBOZkVJlkzXeSzZYPnu4Q6rly_6tbkRhf3tudFu2-vpJxpO1hA2Y7c3e1ZzAFX3Yd1qlleKaBDALE6-4vsM7RLKW8XrW0nzpe8n8j8Xp-Mf3kcSKg4Q/s284/Judas%20nowstarNET.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLTtRVi2-e7Y08Xjj0ehsJVDMiFL79zULCddDl6E5Or_iIHo1AC13vzjUV9x7y_TCKuv1gJ0kHLPBOZkVJlkzXeSzZYPnu4Q6rly_6tbkRhf3tudFu2-vpJxpO1hA2Y7c3e1ZzAFX3Yd1qlleKaBDALE6-4vsM7RLKW8XrW0nzpe8n8j8Xp-Mf3kcSKg4Q/s1600/Judas%20nowstarNET.jpg" width="284" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: nowstar.net</div></span><b style="font-size: large;"><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: large;">BETTER FOR HIM HAD HE NOT
BEEN BORN</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">
</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">“…But
woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;">
</p><p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">It
would be better for him if he had not been born.” Matt 26:24b (NIV)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He
controlled the money bag<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">dipped
into the money bag<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">dipped with Jesus
at table<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">mingled with
Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">chewed the
fat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">as they
roasted fish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">along the
shore of the Galilee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Judas watched
Him heal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the blind and
lame<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">even raise
the dead<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">was there
when He fed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">hungry
multitudes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">calmed a
raging squall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and walked
billow to billow<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">upon the
storm-tossed sea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">He heard Him
teach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">beatitudes,
parables<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">even how to
pray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">observed His
tenderness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">as children
climbed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">upon His lap<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">observed His mercy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to those who
sinned much<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The day Mary
anointed Jesus’ feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">with
extravagant nard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and dried
them <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">with her
unpinned hair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">it was he who
complained <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the perfume
should have been sold<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the money
given to the poor—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">yes, it was
he, holder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">of the purse
strings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When this same
apostle agreed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to betray his
master<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">for a handful
of silver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">did he think<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the Miracle
Worker<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">would somehow
slip away <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">unscathed, as
He had<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the day He
was driven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">out of the
synagogue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">by an angry
mob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">intent on
throwing Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">off a cliff<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Woe to the
mercenary<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">betrayer of
the Son of Man<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">…Mammon had
always been<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">his greater
god<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Their final
evening<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">at the
Paschal meal <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the Master
stooped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">to wash filth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">from His betrayer’s
feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Judas partook
of the Bread<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">drank of the
Wine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and when
Jesus dipped a morsel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and gave it
to him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">from His very
own hand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the taker
took that, too<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Later, in the
garden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">following
Jesus’ great travail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Judas approached
Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">with armed
cohorts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">called Him,
“Rabbi”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">kissed his face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">still damp
with blood and sweat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">as the Rabbi
called him, <i>“Friend”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The word
echoed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">echoed,
echoed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">in thunderous</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">heartbeats<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">till he flung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">the tarnished
coins <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">through
temple doors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">till he tied<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">a ragged
noose around his neck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">and hanged
his wretched self<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">from a
jutting twisted limb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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Pilgrimage—2006<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Twelve feet
below<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">the hustle
and bustle and hawking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">the crowds,
the spices, the wares<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">of the
present Via Dolorosa<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">lies an
ancient pathway<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">of trodden
stones<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Yeshua<a href="file:///G:/Poems/AT%20THE%20VIA%20DOLOROSA.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>
walked upon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">in sandaled
feet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">on His way to
Calvary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">2000 years
ago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">ancient
stones<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">stumbling
stones<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">stones Yeshua,
weak and weary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">may have
fallen upon as He carried<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">the cumbersome
crossbeam<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">along that
terrible path<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">to
Crucifixion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">I remove a
shoe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">to feel the
coolness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">of hallowed
ground<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">against my
bare sole<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">We begin
singing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Were You There When They <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Crucified My Lord</span></i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">and <i>tremble<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">tremble, tremble<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">at the
reading<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">about the
Suffering Servant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">in Isaiah 53<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Millenniums<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">seem to
disappear<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">It almost
feels<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">like it’s
happening here<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">now—<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">There’s
something<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">timeless<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">about it<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">isn’t there?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif""><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"">Maude Carolan
Pych</span></p><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" />
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///G:/Poems/AT%20THE%20VIA%20DOLOROSA.doc#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Yeshua
is the Name of Jesus in Hebrew.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-80484303143670215212024-03-04T00:00:00.003-05:002024-03-04T00:00:00.141-05:00"The Lamb"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">At the conclusion of today's poem</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">I've included a story about how it came to be written.</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">I call this my miracle poem.</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><i></i></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4dERZAF6KioXZ5uiEQ9ztlj5q9t34pCm5Y7fBkIfhIkP6S_Re4aAwzrMctL_CE6jMz4yW_dgP92TwQAZTdy23vSc_hyphenhyphenhNw6FWGoA7dDmU1tvIBq_lSOEPPimOLxcX8V1NdFR4au1ChzSvJf0Lyed-Ko2R4z_tUt9xPjBoR-cTVbwEFIab_6-9Qr7hSITO/s320/Lamb%20by%20Maude.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4dERZAF6KioXZ5uiEQ9ztlj5q9t34pCm5Y7fBkIfhIkP6S_Re4aAwzrMctL_CE6jMz4yW_dgP92TwQAZTdy23vSc_hyphenhyphenhNw6FWGoA7dDmU1tvIBq_lSOEPPimOLxcX8V1NdFR4au1ChzSvJf0Lyed-Ko2R4z_tUt9xPjBoR-cTVbwEFIab_6-9Qr7hSITO/s1600/Lamb%20by%20Maude.JPG" width="320" /></a></i></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo by Maude</span></i></b></div></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><span style="font-size: medium;">THE LAMB</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><span style="font-size: x-small;">(The Lamb Upon the Cross)</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">O
look upon the innocent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
unblemished lamb, slain at twilight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">as
God decreed through Moses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">See
its blood upon the doorposts, upon the lintel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Israelites consume it along with bitter herbs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">reminiscent
of affliction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">They
eat hurriedly, prepared for departure<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">loins
girded, sandals on their feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">staff
in hand, the lamb within<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Look
upon the foreshadows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">see
their hazy shapes coming into focus—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
the Passover of the Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">God
struck His mighty hand against Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
the firstborn of man and livestock were slain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">As
God looked upon the lamb’s blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">on
the doorposts, on the lintels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">He
passed over the Israelite dwellings<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
delivered His chosen, saved<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">by
the blood of the Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Look
upon the foreshadows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">see
their hazy shapes coming into focus—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
the Passover, the Holy Passover of the Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">O
look upon the Innocent, the Unblemished One<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Lamb upon the Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">slain
in unison with other lambs at Passover<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">See
the crimson Blood trickling down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
thorn-crowned Face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">streaming
from His hands and feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">See
the iron spikes, the gaping stripes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Suffering Servant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Oh!
Look into the Eyes of the Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Atonement for all sin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
the Passion, the Holy Passion of the Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Redemptive Lambs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">meet
in the foreshadows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Their
shapes come into focus—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">They
are One<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
precious Blood <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
the Lamb upon the Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">redeems
the world—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">We
are saved <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">by
the Blood of the Lamb—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It
is finished. Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">O
look upon the glorious One<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Lamb standing as if slain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Hear
the multitudes proclaim—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Worthy is the Lamb Who
was slain<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">to receive power and
wealth<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and wisdom and
strength<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and honor and glory
and praise!<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">...To Him who sits on
the throne<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and to the Lamb, be
praise and honor<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and glory and power for
ever and ever!<a href="file:///G:/Poems/THE%20LAMB+info%20about.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Amen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude
Carolan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">About this poem—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I began writing inspirational poetry,
seriously, in the 1980s. I read, studied, and experimented with writing styles,
trying to find my voice. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Shortly after marrying Leo Carolan, in 1991, I
was sitting at my desk in work at Kearfott in Wayne, NJ, one Friday afternoon,
when a vision of a Lamb upon a cross, momentarily flashed before my eyes. Strangely,
it was a cocoa colored lamb. Its sad dark eyes looked down and penetrated me. I
knew at that moment I would write a poem about the Lamb upon a cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">That evening, Leo and I went to the Shabbat
service at Beth Israel Messianic Center, then in Garfield, NJ. I began talking
with a woman I knew, named Elaine. I complimented her on a piece of unique
jewelry she was wearing. It was a gold Star of David with a realistic platinum
lamb affixed over it. She wore it on a chain around her neck. Elaine explained
to me that she had the piece custom made. The Star had a wood-grain design,
which represented the cross to her. There it was, for the second time that day,
the Lamb upon a cross. I immediately knew the poem swirling in my mind would
begin with the lambs in Exodus that were slain at Passover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Writing the poem was particularly significant because
I strongly felt God’s hand upon me as I wrote. When the draft was finished, I
prepared to show it to Leo to get his opinion. Because this poem was deeply
personal and important, I prayed first and asked God to give me the grace to accept
any criticism he might offer without becoming sensitive or defensive. He asked
me to read the poem to him. As I read aloud, there was one word I suddenly
realized needed to be changed. I waited for Leo’s input. He said he liked it a
lot, but there was just one word he recommended I change. Of course, it was the
very same word. Praise the Lord for the amazing grace He gives. I consider this
poem to be my miracle poem. It is titled, “The Lamb”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s
Good Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
I’m doing what I usually do—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">meditating
on the Cross <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
then writing a poem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Today
I am thinking about forgiveness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
unforgiveness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">thinking
one of the things<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
makes me marvel about Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: center 3.0in;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is that He looked down <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">upon
the very men who mocked Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
ones who scourged Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">who
spat in His innocent face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">then
crowned Him with a twisted ring of thorns<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
drove nails through His hands and feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Yes,
He looked at them <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">with
unfathomable mercy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in
His unspeakable agony<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
implored His Father<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">…forgive them<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for they know not
what they do<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Then
I think of myself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
injustices done to me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">by
people I’ve loved<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">people
I’ve tried to forgive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
have forgiven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">then
taken back my forgiveness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">over
and over and over again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve
mulled over life’s unfairness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">replayed
injustices, feeling righteous<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">feeling
justified<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">then
am reminded (like today)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">that
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all </i>have sinned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so
I let go and forgive again<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
really want to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for
God has forgiven me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">so
who am I<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 368.15pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to remember puny injustices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">against
myself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Today,
Jesus, as I meditate upon Your love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
the magnitude of Your sacrifice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">my
old wounds are infinitesimal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
don’t want to harbor them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">anymore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
asking for Your help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">this
Good Friday afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Help
me let it all go—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">forever<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p><br /><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-41266308515769963112024-03-01T00:00:00.007-05:002024-03-01T00:06:18.593-05:00"It's No Wonder"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtyuZl4oQ4wWMTLHo3otDuxfI9RqQ_f1SvyX45D3KzAkGHylEQITei8s-AbfKOSNnF6Ob7oJlkUX30_-HV5p9Ey5o2pzkbX37mnQiKWJzmKJd0N_y_BAGOt9rWsbSNa008hqTwP08BhBc-xI3kZBJdQT861jhmdBHKj9qVjvoV5S10Eb1JEIYTmP4fgNN/s320/MaryMag%20by%20J%20Kirk%20Richards%20ldslivingCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="320" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtyuZl4oQ4wWMTLHo3otDuxfI9RqQ_f1SvyX45D3KzAkGHylEQITei8s-AbfKOSNnF6Ob7oJlkUX30_-HV5p9Ey5o2pzkbX37mnQiKWJzmKJd0N_y_BAGOt9rWsbSNa008hqTwP08BhBc-xI3kZBJdQT861jhmdBHKj9qVjvoV5S10Eb1JEIYTmP4fgNN/s1600/MaryMag%20by%20J%20Kirk%20Richards%20ldslivingCOM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">"Mary Magdalene" by J. Kirk Richards</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><h1><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 22pt;">IT’S NO WONDER<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">It’s
no wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Mary
of Magdala<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">traveled
with Rabboni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
the twelve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
helped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">support
His mission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">She
was a woman on fire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">with
love and gratitude<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">a
woman freed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">of
seven snarling demons<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">It’s
no wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">despite
trepidation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">she
watched at a distance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">as
they nailed her Great One<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to
a wretched cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">cupping
her ears, wailing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">at
each resonating hammerfall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">No
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">she
drew near<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">as
He hung<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">in
the agony of dying<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">for
being there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">was
better<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">than
not being there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Mary,
bereft<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">looked
upon her Rabboni<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">as
they took Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">from
the beams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">laid
His powerless Body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">in
the tomb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
rolled a great round stone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">across
the entrance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">separating
Him from her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">before
the sun went down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">that
Good and terrible Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
it’s no wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">she
was back at dawn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">the
morning after Sabbath<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">with
other ministering women<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">carrying
spices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">heedless
of who<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">would
roll the stone away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">But
the tomb was open<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
the women trembled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">as
an angel astounded them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">with
talk of rising<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Bewildered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Mary
ran to the apostles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">but
it’s no wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">she
returned<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to
grieve near the tomb,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">wanting
to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">where
last He was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">A
stranger, <i>the gardener?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">inquired
of her weeping<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"Sir,"
she implored<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"if
you have carried Him away<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">tell
me where you have put Him<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
I will get Him"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"Mary…"
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"Rabboni!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Astonished,
she reflexively<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">reached
for Him…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"Do
not cling to Me"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">He
told her<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"for
I have not yet ascended<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to
My Father"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">Oh,
it’s no wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">it
was she He entrusted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to
bring the news<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">to
the brethren<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">No
wonder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">she
ran, stumbling over rocks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
potsherd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">dashing
through brush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">and
brambles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">raising
tufts of dust<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">eager
to exclaim <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">breathless
with jubilation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">"I
have seen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;">the
Lord!"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Informal Roman"; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maude Carolan</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1><div><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div>************</div><div><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">For Saturday, March 2nd...</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><p></p><h1><span style="font-size: medium;">WHAT'S SO "GOOD" ABOUT IT?</span><o:p></o:p></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i></p><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When I was a child<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I could hardly wait for Easter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">could hardly wait to wear my new spring dress<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and the flowery straw bonnet with velvet ribbon streamers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">could hardly wait for the basket of marshmallow chocolates<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">tiny jelly beans and bright colored eggs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to magically appear in my bedroom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">compliments of a big white bunny<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Oh, the wonders of childhood’s imaginings…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was glad about the Resurrection, too, of course<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But first I had to get through Lent and "Good"
Friday<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">first I had to sacrifice<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and give a lot of serious consideration<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to <i>Jesus</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">first I had to think about a nice holy man<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>dying<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a terrible death<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">upon a horrible cross<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and I had to try to understand <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that He died that awful death<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>for me!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I preferred, of course<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to think about chocolate, bunnies, and bonnets<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">rather than scourging, thorns, and nails<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Good?</i> I thought…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What could possibly <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">be "Good" about it?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to call it "Bad Friday"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Cruel Friday" or <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">"Why Did God Have To Have It Happen That Way
Friday?"<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of course<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was too young to understand…then<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now I realize<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a basket-bearing bunny on Easter<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">cannot be compared to what happened<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that particular cosmic Friday<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">at the Cross<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now I know<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">what's so "Good" about it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">is that it's followed by<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that Stone-Blown-Out-of-the-Tomb-<i>Sunday!!!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that Jesus-Was-Dead…But-Now-He-Lives--Hallelujah-<i>Sunday!!!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now I know<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">it’s not about the
bunny at all—<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s about Jesus,
the Sacrifice Lamb, Who died for our sins<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so all who Believe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">will be granted
eternal life<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and that<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">my brothers and sisters<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">is very, very, very<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Good!!!<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<h1><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maude Carolan
Pych</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9go9WLKhwlGLkm4xKWdKSRLZfASQT0LzmtR7tf3p2jietWLMY-WGOQy29lbw6cjuYdz5OHD8HSAuRt0CHReUSzFy6-604WYcsls5D4ihHAoH03CceIHmXs_KHS0G79J4egIFsjrk9WO6kNHImqS_N94bAOPJyZ_vnV6_V5JBpXEBk2HqHT8H3Of8SCoaa/s406/behold-the-lamb-booklogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="286" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9go9WLKhwlGLkm4xKWdKSRLZfASQT0LzmtR7tf3p2jietWLMY-WGOQy29lbw6cjuYdz5OHD8HSAuRt0CHReUSzFy6-604WYcsls5D4ihHAoH03CceIHmXs_KHS0G79J4egIFsjrk9WO6kNHImqS_N94bAOPJyZ_vnV6_V5JBpXEBk2HqHT8H3Of8SCoaa/w141-h200/behold-the-lamb-booklogo.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">"Behold the Lamb...<i>poetically!"</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">by Maude Carolan Pych</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">is available online</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p></div>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-51893410849507487482024-02-29T00:00:00.001-05:002024-02-29T00:00:00.254-05:00"I'm Not Jewish"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy1sVwYzLQlKw6tynbLikqb0xRJFECT5JITIGgZm_QXjCiPreMhmRWNk-vZ931K2ncjilyCW2-RVUvPGffL2oxi5QBLeCt7qX6sXNSWHRu5bpOdPw0pFrZk38L9l65TWVF5STGUY_Na30Zqcb1afx4KAFOxa26cttBjP4Od7GBbgc45gIRxWgXf0lwvMAC/s265/Grafted%20In%20Symbol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="265" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy1sVwYzLQlKw6tynbLikqb0xRJFECT5JITIGgZm_QXjCiPreMhmRWNk-vZ931K2ncjilyCW2-RVUvPGffL2oxi5QBLeCt7qX6sXNSWHRu5bpOdPw0pFrZk38L9l65TWVF5STGUY_Na30Zqcb1afx4KAFOxa26cttBjP4Od7GBbgc45gIRxWgXf0lwvMAC/s1600/Grafted%20In%20Symbol.jpg" width="265" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’M NOT JEWISH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
that the sap<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
rises <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">from
sturdy old olive roots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">flows
through the veins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
this grafted branch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
not Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my flesh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
still shudders<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">at
the Shoah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(of sisters and brothers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
the natural branch)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
the same root<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
swears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’d
have done something...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">something<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
not Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my feet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
have walked<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
holy, well worn pathways<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">in
Eretz Yisrael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my fingertips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
pressed petitions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">between
stones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
the Western Wall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my ears<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
perk to the cantor’s<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">chanting
of the Shema<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
Aaronic Benediction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
Kiddush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">over
bread and wine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my eyes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
look<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">upon
the Lamb,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">my
Atonement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my lips<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
chant <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">ancient
baruchas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">to
HaShem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m
not Jewish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">except
for my heart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">which
bears the cloven mark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">of
circumcision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">and
loves Yeshua,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the
Jewish Messiah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who
was pierced<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for
my transgressions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Who
shed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">His
precious Jewish Blood<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">for
me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Maude
Carolan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"></span></div></span><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-49675366105299895502024-02-28T00:00:00.002-05:002024-02-28T00:00:00.247-05:00"I've Read the End of the Book"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUgtZg8hv7NXrqgYl3MjSAJ39268UYmyuLo0M1rs-abRmABcfUgSYXRjSlbQ6IgZ4K3_MiRqjLbtfrCphykXVSYozpkO_QaK7bN4gKF7YArVHM-JdoLyUEeefbNnxw9sZwk4gd1tNdr-iJQrxbuaV3bRcOwE_ULarkpqsNfgOx71gJ320CjazPmq2qFCN/s800/Bible%20drericzCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNUgtZg8hv7NXrqgYl3MjSAJ39268UYmyuLo0M1rs-abRmABcfUgSYXRjSlbQ6IgZ4K3_MiRqjLbtfrCphykXVSYozpkO_QaK7bN4gKF7YArVHM-JdoLyUEeefbNnxw9sZwk4gd1tNdr-iJQrxbuaV3bRcOwE_ULarkpqsNfgOx71gJ320CjazPmq2qFCN/s320/Bible%20drericzCOM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Photo credit: drericz.com</div></span><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"><br /></i><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 171.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I’VE
READ THE END OF THE BOOK<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Twice
I heard Tony Campolo deliver<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">his
famous and rousing sermon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s Friday, but
Sunday’s Comin’!</span></i><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">at
the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tony
drummed home the point<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">that
everything may look bleak on Friday, but…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">come
Sunday…Sunday changes everything!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Now,
I’m not thinking of just any dark and bleak Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I’m
thinking about the original <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good </i>Friday—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">thinking
the only reason I can bear <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">to
contemplate that good and terrible day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">is
because I know<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">a
few days later there was<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">a
mind-blowing, miraculous Sunday—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">…Resurrection
Sunday!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
disciples didn’t have<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
advantage I have—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">They
didn’t understand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">life
after death<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">couldn’t
comprehend<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">atonement
for sin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">just
didn’t get it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">that
their teacher and friend, Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">could
die upon a cross <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">for
the sins of the world<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">They
didn’t realize<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">they
were in the middle of miracles<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Didn’t
know the future—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sure,
they may have read portions of the Scrolls<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">but
they didn’t have the whole wonderful Book<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
ending wasn’t written yet!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 23.25pt 172.5pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
do have the whole Book<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I’ve
read ahead <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="tab-stops: 140.25pt;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and studied the pages<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
know that what follows<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Good Friday story<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">is
the victorious hope-giving<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">hallelujah
happy ending<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
know my sins are forgiven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">know
I’m going to live forever<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Yes,
I know what happened next<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
that makes all the difference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LkOkFDoj2JFX2WSuiI-LkD88OXaUz4xeHWebjGsyVtM2sKIbTu3Ef-TOr32CVWPVgRrxUALma37QUd8OFZ0x2FoD7tbm4b7SVAea_UsjfZoRSo8USWfBdcRvfwNANiIHMAvO3sdPC8BnbQnTmp7dLycc_ZPrZf5b4AH2_NiLHXBxjQh2EtUMOFaIlHoU/s406/behold-the-lamb-booklogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="286" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LkOkFDoj2JFX2WSuiI-LkD88OXaUz4xeHWebjGsyVtM2sKIbTu3Ef-TOr32CVWPVgRrxUALma37QUd8OFZ0x2FoD7tbm4b7SVAea_UsjfZoRSo8USWfBdcRvfwNANiIHMAvO3sdPC8BnbQnTmp7dLycc_ZPrZf5b4AH2_NiLHXBxjQh2EtUMOFaIlHoU/w141-h200/behold-the-lamb-booklogo.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">"Behold the Lamb...<i>poetically!"</i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">by Maude Carolan Pych</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">is available online</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-44758195214300706242024-02-27T00:00:00.044-05:002024-02-27T00:00:00.147-05:00"Beautiful"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>There's a song that Marty Goetz sings</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>titled "The Love of God," in which it says,</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>"Do you see, on that tree, the love of God?"</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>Do you see it?</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>It's beautiful...</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4hdjT1qbRmzHMzGcZkdHi-xIawgr-MEz5BKzk_Zne7bHRCMdVie-Z5PDuU_tAaLO5HqIfwxGtLjeEusUL1SDupB1KLFMeeM6FAU9cAmNdZlkVmEAUKklhnykCatBR8-Ojn_-0oGEpvhinwIDEPTHhz29YmcOsZVdvYZaEZF2Wai6fdxGmrHcptvKUznp/s259/Crucifixion%20youtubeCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4hdjT1qbRmzHMzGcZkdHi-xIawgr-MEz5BKzk_Zne7bHRCMdVie-Z5PDuU_tAaLO5HqIfwxGtLjeEusUL1SDupB1KLFMeeM6FAU9cAmNdZlkVmEAUKklhnykCatBR8-Ojn_-0oGEpvhinwIDEPTHhz29YmcOsZVdvYZaEZF2Wai6fdxGmrHcptvKUznp/s1600/Crucifixion%20youtubeCOM.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: youtube.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Lucida Handwriting"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">BEAUTIFUL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
not a pretty sight -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Crimson streaming<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> From His crown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Hands,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Side,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Feet,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Onto my head,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Flowing down my face,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Over my
body,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Covering
my feet,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Making
me whiter than snow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
not a pretty sight - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> It’s agony.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> He calls for His Father,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Writhes, gasps, thirsts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Oh, the weighty burden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Of sin upon the Sinless
One,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> The world’s,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Mine,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Yours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Agony,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Ushering the covenant of salvation -
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> The world’s,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Mine,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Yours.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
not a pretty sight -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> It is finished.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> They take Him down<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> From the good and terrible
Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Hastily,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> They place Him in the
tomb.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Securely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> They seal the rolling
stone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> They guard His grave<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> In awesome,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Tremulous,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Expectant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Stillness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
not a pretty sight -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> His Body, gone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Gone! With power<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> In one resplendent
moment -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Seal broken,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Stone
rolled,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Earth
jolted on its axis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Angels appear, hallowing
-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Alleluia! Alleluia!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> He
is risen!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> We
live<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Because
He lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Oh!
He is beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Beautiful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude
Carolan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-78825936804506688392024-02-26T00:00:00.003-05:002024-02-26T00:00:00.314-05:00"Yeshua"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tCFI9ccKTSlxZAMKQIw5-D2uiWjeFzE6MTrkQnUI5jzV8ReIjClii6aTHpv2k1wn0P3Xog_aZyBJumkyA7AXlt99Vs-bQKraOHxfZyFKfWvhub_b04t5EDh1Z5W9AV_uS5tjgue-916uEfZJFGg5N0oHsrGzjk402SPo9AFazmo4XFaAbdWtiKnxOEgT/s300/Yeshua%20shofar37WORDPRESScom.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tCFI9ccKTSlxZAMKQIw5-D2uiWjeFzE6MTrkQnUI5jzV8ReIjClii6aTHpv2k1wn0P3Xog_aZyBJumkyA7AXlt99Vs-bQKraOHxfZyFKfWvhub_b04t5EDh1Z5W9AV_uS5tjgue-916uEfZJFGg5N0oHsrGzjk402SPo9AFazmo4XFaAbdWtiKnxOEgT/s1600/Yeshua%20shofar37WORDPRESScom.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: shofar37.wordpress.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">YESHUA<a href="file:///G:/Poems/YESHUA-blog.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 22pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes
You are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Miraculous Offspring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Of I
Am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes
You are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The
Paschal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Our
Atonement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Flowed
down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Crossed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wooden
beams<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">surrendered
Life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Became<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Our
Great Salvation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes it
did<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Suffering
Servant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lion
of Judah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sar ha
Shalom<a href="file:///G:/Poems/YESHUA-blog.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yeshua<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes
You are<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ha
Mashiach<a href="file:///G:/Poems/YESHUA-blog.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Yes!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">You
Are.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<h1 align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Algerian; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Maude
Carolan<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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</div><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-23347049988044219732024-02-25T00:00:00.008-05:002024-02-25T00:00:00.137-05:00"The Lamb Thread"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipa3KYccWVXIGzCXYsaysfLlYZn5Z8-IigNDa8F2KOmQlvFhyn8dQi120_EUHVYSyAqREKuvIkUz456HzpYlD0vKvVyYLsCfuP24wGnWEtVyKjDUHgAQGO8Qrnn8AtxDi4idujERFuZWnnJTRKTE224yNPG11BCZcwU9q5rH9n6bk6os7NrGh5zCLuHDbc/s260/Lamb%20harvestministryCOM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="260" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipa3KYccWVXIGzCXYsaysfLlYZn5Z8-IigNDa8F2KOmQlvFhyn8dQi120_EUHVYSyAqREKuvIkUz456HzpYlD0vKvVyYLsCfuP24wGnWEtVyKjDUHgAQGO8Qrnn8AtxDi4idujERFuZWnnJTRKTE224yNPG11BCZcwU9q5rH9n6bk6os7NrGh5zCLuHDbc/s1600/Lamb%20harvestministryCOM.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: harvestministries.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-size: x-large; font-style: italic;">THE LAMB THREAD</b></div><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; text-align: left;">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Inspired by the April 2, 2021 message <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">delivered by Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: x-large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">at Beth Israel Worship Center, Wayne, NJ.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rabbi Jonathan delivers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">his Good Friday message<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">with passion that is contagious<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and just happens to be<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">about my favorite thread<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">in Scripture…the Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">He begins in Genesis 22<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">where lamb and love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">are mentioned for the first time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s that mind-blowing chapter<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">when God put Abraham to the test<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">by telling him to sacrifice his only son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whom he loved</i>,
as a burnt offering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">on Mount Moriah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">so Abraham bound Isaac <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and obediently raised <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">the glinting blade above the boy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">but was stopped by the angel of the Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">God provided <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">a substitute sacrifice that day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">a ram—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Abraham named that place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jehovah Jireh, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God
will provide<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and in the fullness of time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">God does provide a
Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">on that very same mountain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">I follow my rabbi’s thread<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">to Exodus 12, the Passover<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">as the Lord brought His people<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">out of bondage in Egypt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and saved them <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by
the blood of the lamb</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">then listen as he speaks of sacrifices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and the cleansing blood sprinkled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">upon the mercy seat by the high priest<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">every year, on the Day of Atonement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">The mystery continues to unravel<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">in Isaiah 53 with the astonishing foretelling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">of the sacrifice of the Suffering Servant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who was…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pierced
through for our transgressions<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> was crushed for
our iniquities…</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Like a lamb
that is led to the slaughter<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and like a sheep
that is silent<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">before its shearers…He
did not open His mouth<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">The thread weaves its way to Daniel 9<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">the mystery of the Seventy Weeks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and the coming of Messiah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who would be cut off/Crucified<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">I follow along, eagerly <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">flipping through pages of the Gospels <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and listen afresh as John the Baptist proclaims <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Behold the Lamb of
God<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Who takes away the
sin of the world<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">remembering, the place, in the land of Moriah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">where Abraham nearly sacrificed his son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">is the very same location <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">as the Place of the Skull, Golgotha<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">where the Lamb God provided<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">was Crucified and died<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Enthusiasm rises in Rabbi’s voice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">and in my heart as he nears the end <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">of the thread that runs so true <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">without any loose ends<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">all throughout the Scriptures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">He sums up his message<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">in the Book of Revelation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">as the voice of many angels proclaim<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Worthy is the Lamb
that was slain<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to receive power
and riches and wisdom<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and might and honor
and glory and blessing<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">where resplendently jeweled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">the New Jerusalem comes down out of Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">shining with the glory of God<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">where God Almighty and the Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">are its temple and the lamp is the Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hallelujah! Praise God Almighty—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">God has provided His Glorious Lamb…<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for us!</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maude Carolan Pych</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmC14Oe3ZnCsgnFdbPvOAyKP-eB-xoK-nS1tr9VmOR49F2iP1vzkquF9HmixISObAxoZDjC8yiF21Z3-yiTlyKGvUW6D0YCKS9tv4Ag2P-rVooo855KPlPLj-E7j2kPxYGxGUD5LmQcz_aig4kj8d3xZDFYsIhmE2nh2r8uA2utBVCzPMaZguKL5kfiqUt/s224/About%20the%20Lamb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="160" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmC14Oe3ZnCsgnFdbPvOAyKP-eB-xoK-nS1tr9VmOR49F2iP1vzkquF9HmixISObAxoZDjC8yiF21Z3-yiTlyKGvUW6D0YCKS9tv4Ag2P-rVooo855KPlPLj-E7j2kPxYGxGUD5LmQcz_aig4kj8d3xZDFYsIhmE2nh2r8uA2utBVCzPMaZguKL5kfiqUt/s1600/About%20the%20Lamb.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><br /></div><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-22888963609946070802024-02-24T00:00:00.002-05:002024-02-24T00:03:49.538-05:00"The Cross I Wear"<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxhUy2zcUUsMEB-EJ-aMFAb-MnS2fsbMgfMy4g5IjorWHzzJKuQRMMrYndRsHe2JqMga91GhyphenhyphenzUBTVUu90bLTra7rAYmcVvAxqrDZnuu6wim-THLO2sTtJBZGOdAwDpWWy7bkRsBYakGzs85Z3XxRCmcb75_vNCQ9jA_Sz8z4SOTIr9VnumkeZL8WJdNR/s278/God%20so%20loved%20fineartamericaCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="182" data-original-width="278" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxhUy2zcUUsMEB-EJ-aMFAb-MnS2fsbMgfMy4g5IjorWHzzJKuQRMMrYndRsHe2JqMga91GhyphenhyphenzUBTVUu90bLTra7rAYmcVvAxqrDZnuu6wim-THLO2sTtJBZGOdAwDpWWy7bkRsBYakGzs85Z3XxRCmcb75_vNCQ9jA_Sz8z4SOTIr9VnumkeZL8WJdNR/s1600/God%20so%20loved%20fineartamericaCOM.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: fineartamerica.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif""><span style="font-size: medium;">THE CROSS I WEAR</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">“For God so loved the
world, that He gave<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">His only begotten
Son, that whoever believes<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">in Him shall not
perish, but have eternal life.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt;">John 3:16 NASB<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">I
have a little cross I wear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">on
a chain around my neck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It
was a birthday gift<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
my husband<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">The
cross is gold, studded <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">with
tiny diamonds<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
a sapphire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It’s
precious to me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">beautiful
to look at<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
beautiful <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">for
what it represents—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
death of My Savior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ironic,
isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Ironic,
like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Good</i> Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">that
something so exquisite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">should
remind me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
cruel injustice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">excruciating
suffering—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
Crucifixion of Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Our
Spotless Passover Lamb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet
I actually do find it beautiful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">because
Jesus’ death on the Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">is
the fulfillment of John 3:16—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">the
purpose of God<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">from
all eternity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">It
atoned for my sins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
yours<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
culminated <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">with
His glorious Resurrection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">and
that Resurrection<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">assures
us of God’s promise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">of
life in Heaven forevermore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nothing
could be more<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Beautiful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-25847081229351162232024-02-23T00:00:00.002-05:002024-02-23T00:00:00.266-05:00"Mary"<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_IdxomJJy-JiaPn2f9wDCBZb9l-EM1ghNYgz2MUM8CTbojrLcrn0G3mVI7QIB3C8PO9pZhRlISzVdNQsikVs_8LVeh9uO8be3lw97XzdPiMB3gYns2qz2L5kzluM_7OA4PVt7GuYfDaw2a-NlF1Do4C4G8ebQw_8_Le6-JNfcbT48Y3HWT1Y-bNUokTT/s523/Mary%20Mother%20of%20Jesus%20at%20cross%20pinterestCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="523" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC_IdxomJJy-JiaPn2f9wDCBZb9l-EM1ghNYgz2MUM8CTbojrLcrn0G3mVI7QIB3C8PO9pZhRlISzVdNQsikVs_8LVeh9uO8be3lw97XzdPiMB3gYns2qz2L5kzluM_7OA4PVt7GuYfDaw2a-NlF1Do4C4G8ebQw_8_Le6-JNfcbT48Y3HWT1Y-bNUokTT/s320/Mary%20Mother%20of%20Jesus%20at%20cross%20pinterestCOM.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: pinterest.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><h1><span style="font-size: medium;">MARY</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She was a real maiden<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">gracious and virtuous<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so she trembled<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as any girl might<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">at an angel’s visit<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But she had real faith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in a real God<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and she said, “Yes.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She was a real woman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">not blue-gowned in plaster<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A poor carpenter’s wife<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">not an artist’s rendering<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">gilded and haloed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She bulged big with child<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as she rode astride an ass<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and during her real travail<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">brought forth a baby<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in a Bethlehem stable<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She was a real mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He was a real son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She nursed him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">changed him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">bathed and cradled him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as any mother would<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She smiled at his first word<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">saw him take his first step<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and when he fell<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and scraped his tender knees<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">she washed away blood<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">not yet deemed Precious<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and soothed him<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">with soft lullabies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When he was twelve<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and they discovered <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">he was missing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as they traveled home<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">after the Passover<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">she was anxious<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as any mother would be<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and heaved a great sigh<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when they found him, safe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">in the temple courts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, she was a real mom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and he was a real son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">so, it’s not surprising<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">it was she<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">who sensed his power<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">she who encouraged him to act<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">at the wedding feast<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">when wine stopped flowing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">for she knew<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">she just knew…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and she was real<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">at the Crossbeams<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simeon had told her<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">long, long ago<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">a sword would pierce her<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Though hers be bloodless<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">it penetrated sharp<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and deep, as truly<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">as the gaping wounds<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">she now was powerless<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to soothe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He looked down<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">from His agony<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">into hers—<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">gave her to mother<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">his friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">gave his friend<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to be her son<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was always about love<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">She was a real mom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">He is the real Savior<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<h1><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maude Carolan</span><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6NljvI37PhRc21CyxhUHhEjh3uj14aNKKJFvLeUim3kC2OPTmTQZG05cLqT9V-D7VBtBlTV9Qc8RGBoC4Oz7Aa3UP9inYTow5CYaB6o1N_j6ktBdYSxcHLp4bbP5BWnBnbyFhyeHROt4yAMpW4lJJcVdDw8iePH41WDfPGqedVHr1vGImWKxgLNpaJuF/s406/behold-the-lamb-booklogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="286" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF6NljvI37PhRc21CyxhUHhEjh3uj14aNKKJFvLeUim3kC2OPTmTQZG05cLqT9V-D7VBtBlTV9Qc8RGBoC4Oz7Aa3UP9inYTow5CYaB6o1N_j6ktBdYSxcHLp4bbP5BWnBnbyFhyeHROt4yAMpW4lJJcVdDw8iePH41WDfPGqedVHr1vGImWKxgLNpaJuF/w141-h200/behold-the-lamb-booklogo.jpg" width="141" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">"Behold the Lamb...<i>poetically"</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">by Maude Carolan Pych</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">is available online</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CBD, etc.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">www.maudecarolanpych.net</p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3217546018156718982.post-75965614814663348362024-02-22T00:00:00.002-05:002024-02-22T00:00:00.140-05:00"Sometimes I Wish..."<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A-Poem-a-Day Until Resurrection Day</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-Rdz1P-gN0YpSL8PWGLxvBmK-CQHFCBb0CzQp0amOux8M8jlDFNF2IX2BKxoSk7S4A_-yLWLGJsOWLR8axPtw7fvGgj9oGud6ic_7xjAHWu-W1vaLIG70_CF-J6DWUiWlsSiQoImfWiZnTsEah9K6M-rFLIH09SwNJtTIiy2e4h9QPhGCiS-uBrJijXT/s311/Cross%20facebookCOM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="311" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-Rdz1P-gN0YpSL8PWGLxvBmK-CQHFCBb0CzQp0amOux8M8jlDFNF2IX2BKxoSk7S4A_-yLWLGJsOWLR8axPtw7fvGgj9oGud6ic_7xjAHWu-W1vaLIG70_CF-J6DWUiWlsSiQoImfWiZnTsEah9K6M-rFLIH09SwNJtTIiy2e4h9QPhGCiS-uBrJijXT/s1600/Cross%20facebookCOM.jpg" width="311" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Image credit: facebook.com</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">SOMETIMES
I WISH…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A Prayer of Thanksgiving to my Savior<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How
can I tell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">how
can I show<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">how
grateful I am<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">that
You are my Savior?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sometimes
I wish<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">it
were possible to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">leave
the roast in the oven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the
suds in the sink<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
follow my heart’s cry<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to
the land of the Bible<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to
climb Calvary’s hill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">in
beautiful Zion<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Oh!
If it were possible—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I’d
fall to my knees<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">at
the foot of the Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
wrap my arms tightly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">‘round
its stained wooden base<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
press a trembling cheek<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">against
the old splintered grain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
thank You for Love<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">so
wide and so deep<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">beyond
what I can fathom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">then
I’d kiss it and weep<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">kiss
it and weep<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">and
whisper, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I love You<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">from
the depths of my being<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">for
I’m eternally grateful<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jesus,
My Lord<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Albertus MT Lt","sans-serif"" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Maude
Carolan Pych<o:p></o:p></span></p><i style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;"></i><p></p>Maude Carolan Pychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18041508185860325768noreply@blogger.com0