Holy Saturday: 'There is nothing left'

Saturday March 30

Journey through Holy Week with daily reflections from the Rev Roddy Hamilton

Luke 23:52-56

This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid it in a rock-hewn tomb where no one had ever been laid. It was the day of Preparation, and the sabbath was beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee followed, and they saw the tomb and how his body was laid.  Then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments.

On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Reflection:

’Let there be light’

The First promise
Is now shattered

Darkness has won
Love is dead
The tomb is sealed
And words are useless

Why bother?
There is nothing left

Really!

Tomorrow hasn’t
And may not
Happen.

In the echo of a faith
That once hoped so much
We must live in the now
And know the brokenness of heaven
And the crushing of God
Is real.

And it hurts.

Prayer

Holy God
We offer more than silence.
We offer our emptiness
Completely.

The Rev Roddy Hamilton is minister of New Kilpatrick Parish Church, Bearsden