Categories: uncategorized
Date: 23 March 2005 19:58:36
Meditation
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Why is this night different from any other?
this night
this is the night when history is made
the night when lifes could be made, or broken, or recreated.
this night is different from any other
first the meal - familiar symbols, herbs, lamb, bread
bitterness, tears, sacrifices
memories of the past,
of freedom from slavery and promises unfullfilled
Why is this night different from any other?
bitterness, tears, sacrifices.
familiar meals and rituals take on unfamiliar changes
the bitterness of herbs and the salt water of tears
the bread that is broken and hidden
the child that play hide and seek
the ordinary things of life
rituals remembered from childhood
until the meanings changed - yet stayed the same
‘this is my body'
‘this is my blood'
that bitterness, those tears, that freedom
those promises still unfulfilled
are promised yet again
in a new way.
a new hope born through tears
born through the bitterness
this night is different from any other
a night of tears
a night of bitterness
a night of hope.