Holy Saturday

Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 • Job 14:1-14 or Lamentations 3:1-9, 19-24 • 1 Peter 4:1-8 • Matthew 27:57-66 or John 19:38-42

THE WORD CAME TO KNOW

In the fullness of time,

God spoke the Word

into a woman.

The Word came to know

her blood,

her warmth,

her voice.

She held him nine months

and brought him forth

for the revealing of hearts

and the piercing of her soul.

When he was rejected, scorned, killed,

the earth received him

into her arms.

The Word came to know

her stone,

her cold,

her silence.

She held him three days

and breathed him forth

for the redeeming of the world

and the tearing of the veil.

Knowing woman, knowing earth,

the Word speaks truth

with tenderness: Love one another.

The Rev. Dr. Ann Bagley Willms