We Run Away – v2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We run away just like them denying our King, our God too afraid to stand in the breach to trust ...
We run away just like them denying our King, our God too afraid to stand in the breach to trust ...
The hour has come the betrayer is at hand the journey has begun the descent to torture and death and ...
Drops of blood like the pressed olives heavy, falling Gethsemane wet with the sweat the anguish the pain of Christ ...
The hired hands the thief on the cross those who could not see mocking our king the living God the ...
Like them so scared unwilling to stand up to stand out to hold fast to his name When we doubt ...
Sour wine for his thirst given to our Lord fulfilling the ancient word the lament of David of the people ...
A concerted act of will the last candle burning needing to be extinguished yet laden with meaning rich, in remembrance ...
The world closing in gathered in silence in the gathering shadows we begin The day of his dying his sacrifice ...
unlike the others he had done no wrong faithful to God's calling to his law There on the cross the ...
The accusation foreshadowing foretelling betrayal So you say said the master to the statement of the denial of Judas sealing ...
Christ's eyes watching under the sharp thorns a window sharing an image of God Sharing a message bearing his witness ...
Christ dying, mortal a common human experience the end of our lives to be able to minister to speak of ...
Even in dying while dying on the cross the Prodigal turning turning back to God Christ's answer in paradise with ...
Two men, having earned their penalty the judgment of the law too late to repent too late for sacrifice too ...
Looking up at the cross into the face of Jesus my weight on my knees humbly singing your praises Overwhelmed ...
Out of the darkness the humanness of Christ a cry to the Father yet alone, on the cross Christ in ...
Something none of us could do forgiving those who killed us all the people on the earth the believers and ...
Christ's purpose in showing us the way teaching of the love of God our neighbors' load lightened that we would ...
My Savior on the cross becoming the sacrifice Did he see my face as he uttered those words of grace? ...
Alone, in the dark the absence of God alone on the cross wrapped in despair Going to the cross submitting ...
My daughter, my sister washed by her hands in remembrance of that holy night by the hands of a servant ...
None others, only Christ in a position to condemn and yet he forgave each of our failing our hands on ...
Sitting in Quietude in that time of darkness after noon on that day when Christ was on the cross Darkness ...
In the hush of the empty room muffled sounds outdoors a stillness in this place Quiet in the storm The ...
Shrouded, under the veil darkness fell across the whole earth over the rugged cross The sky black, like sackcloth Christ ...
Stopping to check in to talk with my neighbor my brother, suffering to make his ends meet The economy, the ...
Christ offering his witness the grace within him changing our lives the depth of his forgiveness mercy unending praying to ...
His focus on her, on this brother her son dying the youngest apostle loving them both binding them together the ...
Becoming the lamb the sacrifice Christ gave himself paying the cost for us Going to the cross given into their ...
Bound by the meal the bread and the cup the simple mean countless times repeated, in remembrance the thread that ...
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