Intentional Lent Series: The Saturday of In Between

Today on the Intentional Lent Series, Jodie Pine shares her poetry to remind us that God is right there, even when it seems hopeless.

What went wrong God?

We thought we understood

We thought the pieces fit together

We had hoped

He was the Messiah

Shattered dreams.

Disillusionment.

Unrealized expectations.

How could crucifixion

Be part of Your good plan?

The Saturday of in between

The cross and the resurrection

The awe-full reality

Of what is

And what isn’t.

Nailed to the cross

My dreams

My faith

Wanting yet to believe

You never make mistakes.

But how can it be?

On the darkest of days

When all hope 

Is gone

I will wait for You to come.

Your mercies arise with the sunrise

You alone can restore what’s been lost

And transform 

This tragic ending

Into an unimaginable beginning

Nothing

Is impossible for You.

Somehow death creates needed space for new life,

And grief provides tender soil for seeds of hope

So we relinquish and we receive.

As clay softened with tears

On the Potter’s wheel

We too can be re-shaped

Re-defined.

Resurrected.

You delight

In speaking new life

In raising the dead

And in bringing beauty

Glorious up from the ashes of defeat.

Arise, my soul,

Be restored

Live again

Victoriously

I believe, O Lord, meet me here in my unbelief.