as the Lenten journey gets longer
purple gets deeper
cross looks closer, bigger, and heavier,
with a weary heart of Lenten fatigue
we know it's time to prepare for death and burial
of Jesus
of something in us no longer life-giving.
Whatever form it happens
we are reminded
by recognizing what's lifeless, letting it die, burying, and sealing it,
we also become pregnant with a new life.
The place of burial
also becomes a birthplace of something new.
That's probably why he named his death
"a time to be glorified"
