Tomorrow at 10 a.m. Palm Sunday worship begins.
With it begins the journey from colt to cross as we remember Jesus last days.
Please join us in worship this week.
Below is poem written by pastor-poet Rev. Maren Tirabassi, the story from Mark 11: 1-6
11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’” 4 They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, 5 some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6 They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. (NRSV)
Here is Maren's 21st century version that brings us into the story.
for those sent to un-tie donkeys...
First, untie the donkey
the one that’s standing at the gate
waiting to be untied --
from some sorrow or some guilt,
from somebody else’s judgment --
too young for the ride or too old,
too much ink on the skin,
Parkinson’s in the hands,
pregnant in the belly.
First, untie the donkey,
the one that’s standing at the gate
waiting to be untied –
from some abusive relationship
or some really intricate self-made knots,
because what binds
always pretends to be a blessing.
This is just the donkey God wants
for the ride –
this burro with no documents,
or others not-yet-ridden
because they are --
gender-outside, recovery-thin,
on-the-spectrum.
So, first untie the donkey –
this one --
the one who needs a parade,
the one willing to carry both joy
and the premonition of cross,
the one embracing
a day of song and danger,
fetlock deep in palms,
and a life that will echo, Hosanna.
MarenTirabassi on Mark 11:1-6
With it begins the journey from colt to cross as we remember Jesus last days.
Please join us in worship this week.
Below is poem written by pastor-poet Rev. Maren Tirabassi, the story from Mark 11: 1-6
11 When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples 2 and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’” 4 They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, 5 some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” 6 They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. (NRSV)
Here is Maren's 21st century version that brings us into the story.
for those sent to un-tie donkeys...
First, untie the donkey
the one that’s standing at the gate
waiting to be untied --
from some sorrow or some guilt,
from somebody else’s judgment --
too young for the ride or too old,
too much ink on the skin,
Parkinson’s in the hands,
pregnant in the belly.
First, untie the donkey,
the one that’s standing at the gate
waiting to be untied –
from some abusive relationship
or some really intricate self-made knots,
because what binds
always pretends to be a blessing.
This is just the donkey God wants
for the ride –
this burro with no documents,
or others not-yet-ridden
because they are --
gender-outside, recovery-thin,
on-the-spectrum.
So, first untie the donkey –
this one --
the one who needs a parade,
the one willing to carry both joy
and the premonition of cross,
the one embracing
a day of song and danger,
fetlock deep in palms,
and a life that will echo, Hosanna.
MarenTirabassi on Mark 11:1-6
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