No Cup Like This

The cup Christ drank
in the garden that night
no cup like this
in the history of man

God, alive
descended, a man
our hands upon his head
poisoning the lamb

When death graced his lips
on that fateful night
giving up his blood, his blood
in the cup

Sharing the meal
the bread and the wine
before the betrayal
the cup one of a kind

September 22, 2011
on seeing poem, “The Cup of Poison”
before posting it to
www.christianpoetry.org
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The Cup of Poison

Like Socrates and the hemlock
Christ in the garden
the cup of poison, death
waiting for his lips

Praying, in his agony
the struggle of his life
his humanness, divinity
this his final test

Sweat like blood
pouring down, to the ground
Christ crying out
that the cup could pass him by

Submitting his life, his will
to God’s mighty plan
the cup of our sin
bitterness, going down

The ransom paid
in the garden, again
Christ choosing, submitting
to the master’s will


March 7, 2010
Luke 22:39-46
Luke 4:1-13
&
Matthew 26:36-46
Psalm 461:11 (Call to Worship)
Psalm 130:1-8
Psalm 138 (Prayer of Dedication)
Worship Theme: “Our Times of Personal Trial”
and sermon, “With Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
the second in a series of sermons, based in part on the book,
“24 Hours That Changed the World”, by Reverend Adam Hamilton
http://thewell.cor.org/resurrection-resources/24-hours-that-changed-the-world.html
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
March 7, 2010
Third Sunday in Lent

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