Saturday, April 7, 2012

Devotions for Lent - Saturday of Passion Week - The Day Between


The Day Between


by Ruth Bell Graham


(Saturday between Good Friday and Easter)


That was the Day Between the Night Before—
The blood


still wet


upon the hill;



His body



wrapped,



entombed,



and still;



the great stone sealed



with Roman seal



and guarded well.




Many a Judean home



had now



become



a lesser tomb



within whose walls



men lay,



whose Life



had died



That Day.



Looking back



we cannot share



their blackdespair.'



For us



He is the risen Christ,



as He had said:



for them,



that Shabbat,



all life died—



for He



was dead.
* * *
That was the Day Between the Night Before—
* * *
This is my Day Between,



my Night Before …



Suspended



in this interim



—let me be still



let me adore,



let me remember



Him.

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