THE LIGHT IS COMING

THE LIGHT IS COMING


HOLY SATURDAY is a day
That is NOT like any other


We are sitting in BETWEEN
The anguish of Good Friday=
The death and the darkness


And what we HOPE
Is to come


THE LIGHT OF CHRIST


“Then God said-
'Let there be LIGHT'
And there was light” Genesis 1:3


We OPEN church on Saturday night
-With the church all dark
-No sign of light


We hear 3x-
“The Light of Christ”
We respond 3x
“Thanks be to God”


And the church becomes
A BRIGHT LIGHT


For the second time
In this world
There is a GREAT LIGHT


“The people LIVING in darkness
Have seen a GREAT LIGHT


On those
Living in the land
Of the shadow of death


A light has DAWNED” Matthew 4:16


The light is COMING
The LIGHT is ALMOST HERE


“NO one
LIGHTS a lamp
And hides it
In a clay jar


Or puts it
Under a bed


Instead they put it
On a STAND
So that those who come in
CAN SEE the light” Luke 8:16


Jesus is the LIGHT
It is almost TIME
For the WHOLE WORLD to see


“The night is
NEARLY OVER


The day
Is almost here


So let us put aside
The deeds of darkness
And PUT ON
The armor of light” Romans 13:12


Holy Saturday ACKNOWLEDGES
That much of our life
Is LIVED in darkness


The darkness of UNCERTAINTY
Of estrangement=of ignorance=
And of pain


The world is FULL
Of darkness
The darkness of illness
The darkness of divorce
The darkness
Of a terrorist attack


OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH does NOT
Deny the darkness


But ASSURES US
The light is coming


It assures us
That JESUS=OUR LIGHT
Will be with us
During the dark times
Of our life


And he is
The BRIGHTNESS of our life


“The people
WALKING in darkness
Have SEEN a great light


On those
Living in the land
Of deep darkness


A LIGHT HAS DAWNED” Isaiah 9:2


THE LIGHT IS COMING!-
And the darkness-
TURNS into light-
And that LIGHT is Jesus


And the RISEN Jesus
Walks with us
PROMISING US LIFE
And everlasting JOY


Robert P. Wallman
4-14-17




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Melannie Svoboda-S.N.D.