Our God
Our God
why have you abandoned us?
Our familiar patterns of life
ended
our gathering to journey with our fellow Christians to the cross
stopped
our sense of being needed and useful
paused
put on hold
in abeyance
it is a hard time
this year’s journey through Lent
this year’s Good Friday
and here we are, God
crying to you
in our doubt, in our worry, in our pain, in our confusion
“Have you abandoned us, as you did your Son?”
yet, it was you, our God
who took us from our mother’s wombs
so do not be far from us
in these times of trouble
gather us to you
hold us
protect us
keep us safe
so, when this all ends
we can come blinking from our tombs
into the new day’s dawn
whenever that may come
Amen