In the garden,
Gethsemane
after the
betrayal, Judas
racing into the
night, abandon,
after the supper,
the Passover,
After the breaking
of the bread
the sharing of the
wine
A different cup
waiting
for Christ, there
in that garden
more than
sacrifice
waiting for him,
anguish,
the bitter cup of
our vomit
the bile of our
Sin
The Lord praying
His sweat, his tears like blood
His sweat, his tears like blood
that awesome
moment,
in the pit of that
decision,
understanding more
deeply his cry,
“Please take this
cup from me!”
His humanity, for
a moment,
rising in panic,
to turn from this path;
returning, submissive,
fulfilling
God’s holy plan, His
purpose;
Christ a servant,
the lamb
putting that awful
cup to his lips
There in that
garden, Gethsemane,
taking on the
weight of our sin;
the die cast,
fulfilled,
drinking the cup
of our vomit
the bile of our
Sin;
faithful to God;
new life in him.
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Edited February 27, 2013
“The Cup of Our Vomit – v3”
Edited September 6, 2012
“The Cup of Our Vomit – v2”
Edited September 6, 2012
new poem title, “The Cup of Our Vomit”
Mark
7:21-23 (NIV)
Mark
7:20-23 (The Message)
‘He (Christ) went on: "It's what comes out
of a person that pollutes:
obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries,
greed, depravity,
deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks,
slander, arrogance,
foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart.
There is the source of your pollution."’
Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993,
1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing
Group.
Mark
7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
(Revised
Common Lectionary, Year C)
Upper
Room Disciplines for 2012
August
27, 2012 to September 2, 2012
“True
Worship”
by
Jerry Kearney
for
August 29, 2012,
read August 30, 2012
&
Spirit
Study
led
by Pastor Ruth Foss
A Handmaiden of the Lord
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
September 2, 2012
&
earlier poem of
February 8, 2010
“The Cup of Our Sin”
John 14:1-3, 12-18, 25-27
Psalm 46 (Call to Worship)
Psalm 23
and sermon, “When Your World Come Crashing Down”
by Reverend Huntley Halvorson
Suncook
United Methodist Church
Suncook,
NH
February 7, 2010,
based in part on article,
"Trauma and Theology",
by Professor Shelly Rambo,
Boston University School of Theology,
Focus Magazine, Winter 2009
&
Matthew 26:17-30;
Mark 14:12-25;
Luke 22:7-20.
&
Luke 22:39-46
Matthew 26:35-45
Matthew 26:39
“And he went a little further, and fell on his face,
and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible,
let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will,
but as thou wilt”. (KJV)
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