August 10, 2016

BROKEN

Bones and branches break,

so too skin and glass and hearts -

and broken people scream at God -

for not understanding what they

are going through. Is that why

the Father sent the Son and asked

Mary to bring him into the world?

She must have been broken when she saw

friends running away from Jesus in the 
dark night. Then both saw so few under the 
cross the next day: broken Friday afternoon.
But then at daybreak - that Easter morning 
the cave and the grave split open and 
death was broken apart forever. Alleluia.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016