Saturday, April 23, 2011

Day 23: TIME TO QUIT WHAT YOU ARE DOING

JESUS QUIT WHAT HE WAS DOING

I wonder if Jesus was ready to
quit what he was doing. After raising
Lazarus, he would be the super-freak,
desired and feared by all. Or would there be
a torrent of jealousy? “You raised her
brother from the dead, why not mine?” Not un-
like the super-science dilemma to
name, to choose, who is first in the queue for
the dead human’s liver, a harvested
liver to make one live, Jesus must have

seen it coming. More crowds. More hungry hands.
More sick and demon possessed children. More
women of all rejected nations. More
low-down begging and pleading. More power
struggles between his trainees. Dumb questions.
Suspicions. More misunderstandings. So
maybe, as it is for many, death was
a mercy in the end for Jesus. On
this Jewish Sabbath day in between we
remember him. Just resting. In a stone

silent place. With everyone else at rest.
Except for the guards. And perhaps by sun-
down they also had nodded off. Ready to quit
their hyper-vigilance. His mother sat
somewhere. I don’t believe she could sleep. I
sometimes wonder if Jesus was ready
to quit. I wonder if he felt sure that
stopping was the only next step. He
must have left the rest of the work to God

and us.

(Poetic form: ten lines, ten syllables X 3 + two words)

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