For all Goodness, on a Friday

"The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it."

(Augustus William Hare)

"Another time

Jesus smeared God like mud 

on the eyes of a man born blind 

and pushed him toward the pool of Siloam. 

The blind man splashed his eyes 

and stared into the rippling reflection 

of the face he had only felt. 

First he did a handstand, then a cartwheel, 

and rounded off his joy 

with a series of somersaults. 

He ran to his neighbors, 

singing the news. 

They said: 

“You look like the blind beggar 

but we cannot be sure.” 

The trouble was never

that he was blind 

and could not work out 

but that they could see 

and did not look in." 

(From "The Son Who Must Die", John Shea)

"Hence is't, that I am carried towards the west, 

This day, when my soul's form bends to the East. 

There I should see a Sun by rising set, 

And by that setting endless day beget." 

(From "Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward", 

John Donne)

"It is accomplished." 

(Gospel of St John, 19:30)

"Were You There?" Johnny Cash & The Carter Family

"What is now proved was once only imagined."

(William Blake)