When the Word fell silent on Golgotha - when, after a loud cry, both the high sound of his nervous system and the low sound of his beating heart stopped - the earth shook with grief. Rocks made the only sound they could, splitting open with small explosions that were their best version of tears. The veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom, with a sound of such ripping that those who heard it thought it was the sky. The whole inanimate world leapt in to fill that silence, while poor, dumb humanity stood speechless before the cross.
When God is Silent, Barbara Brown Taylor
Speechless when stone is wrenched from stone: ‘they shook and became like dead men’.
Speechless at the sight of angels: ‘do not be afraid, I know you are looking’.
Speechless at absence where there should have been presence: ‘he is risen, he is going ahead of you’.
Speechless when gazed upon with the love that sent the planets dancing: ‘Mary’.
Speechless as bread is torn apart and offered in blessing: ‘their eyes were opened’.
Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.
For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!
‘Look to this Day’
Kalidasa
breakingpoint (iPhone image).
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