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A Good Wednesday

(Passion, Passover, Ramadan)

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It’s Wednesday

When Amanda would

Bound—how

Does one bound

If one is not

A deer?—but she

Would bound

Into class and

Announce, “It’s

Hump Day!”

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Now it’s Holy Week

So this is Holy

Wednesday

For which there

Are liturgies

With special

Prayers

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We imagine

What Jesus

Might be doing now

Because we are

Conditioned

By the narrative

For timing

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Maybe he’s visiting

With friends;

Maybe he has actions

And words

For healing

And teaching,

Knowing what’s to

Come and having

These his

Final opportunities

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For us

This year

There is a confluence

Of events,

Of seasons:

It’s Ramadan

And also Pesach

Or Passover

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There are several days to each

That are the same

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Three great truths

Come together,

Great faith

Celebrated

Bittersweet

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Bitter

With fasting

And remembrance,

Sweet with

Fasting and remembrance

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God is great

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The angel passes over

Faithful homes,

Jesus saves,

And the prophet receives

Revelation—goodness,

Such good chances

That we have

To respect

And enter into

Many groups

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The places where we worship

(observant)

Entering with curiosity

To know,

To have regard

For learning

And appreciation of

Our neighbors

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Respect, appreciation—these

Are forms of love,

The kind of love

That comes from God

To feed our faith

In one another

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As if God could say,

Come together

Right now

Over me

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But don’t imagine

Not a heaven or a hell:

With appreciation

Of the music

We can have some

Heaven here

And have it there

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