TAKE A LOOK

 

 

 

 

 

TAKE A LOOK

 

Take a look

Take a good long look

 

There’s a man

Out there on the hill

With something wooden on his back

Walking, struggling

Trying to move along

 

He was

Made to do this

By a man

By the name of Pilate

Because he fell out of favor

With the people

Of his day

 

But he picked up the cross

Willingly

And moved along

The best that he could

 

He fell once, he fell a second,

 Even fell a third time

But he kept getting back up

The people all knew

That it was wrong

 

Take a look

At this man

Take a very long look

 

The people of his day

Did not want

To confront their sins

The same as me and you today

 

They kept---we keep

Living out of coldness

Living out of ingratitude

Living out of selfishness

Denying the love of God

And the needs of one another

 

Denying their very existence

 

Along his way

This man

On his walk with the cross

Met his Mother

He wept for the women of Jerusalem

And the people of his day

 

Take a look

Take a very long good look

 

He knew

That these sins

Had to be confronted

He knew

That these sins

Had to be carried

That they had to be put away

 

Keep looking

See that cross

The cross that he carried for you and for me

 

See that man

That mangled tortured man

That perfect man of love

That perfect man of compassion

 

The greatest love, he once said,

“Is to lay down one’s life

For his friends”

 

He is stripped

Take a look

 

He is crucified

Take a very long look

 

He dies and is put in the tomb

Keep on looking

 

He brought us life

He brought us hope

He brought us love

 

TAKE A LOOK
TAKE A VERY LONG LOOK

 

Robert P. Wallman

4-12-11

 

 

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE---May you feel a Resurrection and a healing in your life---

And HAPPY PASSOVER to ALL my JEWISH FRIENDS