Uncertainty

That place where 

my inability to control

Whatever life is handing me

shakes me to 

the place of

Certainty

that 

You are God

and

 I am not.

 

Uncertainty

In the Time of Lent

Brings all that I am

To You, the great I AM

The certain sure One

Here in an uncertain season 

Where 

Betrayal shouts loud

Abandonment deserts

Mockery laughs

In the garden

In the courtyard

At The Cross.

Uncertainty

Shuffles me 

from comfort

To discomfort

From all that I want

To all that You are.

 

Uncertainty

Sparkles glitter frivolously over 

Fat Tuesday pancakes

Mardi Gras parades

Ludicrous living

Outrageous rebellion

Just before

A season of 

reflective living.

 

These bright-sparkled beads

Tossed at the speed of a drunken orgy

Seem dim and dulled 

in the next day’s over hang

making 

No sense of senselessness.

 

I hold the beaded spark

Wondering 

how You kept going towards

Jerusalem

Knowing we 

would keep turning

Ever 

to worship our own pleasures

More than turning to 

be a pleasant

Pleasure to You.

 

Uncertainty

In the forty-day reflection

In the valley

On the Hosanna Palm Sunday highway

Up the ascending road

To Jerusalem

Into the dark of the garden night

To shams of betrayals

Bold as Judas

Adamant as Peter

Abandoning like the rest of us

Who really couldn’t, wouldn’t, didn’t 

watch or pray

In the gardened quiet 

of Gethsemane.

 

Yet You 

were the

Certainty

That Father’s will

would be

The best will

Even at 

the exacting price

Of Your bloodied Cross.

So easily we are uncertain in

Our actions.

So steadily You are certain

In Your declaration:

 

Yet not My will, but Thine.

Yet not My will, but Thine.

Yet not My will, but Thine.

 

Uncertainty

in the Time of Lent

Leads to 

a dividing road,

time to choose:

Towards the pauper’s field,

Bloodied of betraying ways

or 

Towards Your bloodied hands and feet,

Giving up life

To give it forth again.

 

Uncertainty

To 

Certainty.

 

The road from Lent to Easter.


Featured images are courtesy of Patrick ForeAaron Burden, Canva Stock, and Johannes Plenio.

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