Here’s a beautiful prayer about the death of Jesus from John van de Laar in South Africa.
A Naked Death
Yours was a naked death, Jesus:
Not for you the fine linen of a rich bed
surrounded by wealth accumulated over a comfortable lifetime.
Not for you a well prepared service of farewell
with time for proper grieving and departures.
Not for you a carefully chosen shroud,
or a tenderly nurtured grave.
When you kept your rendezvous with death
All was stripped away except your determined love
and the life that lay dormant for a moment
waiting for the morning
When your naked glory would break free again.
Amen.
— copyright © 2006 John van de Laar. Posted on his excellent Sacredise website. http://www.sacredise.com/
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