
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.

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