didee-k
Registered: July 2008
Posts: 31
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Hmmmm...whoops. I read the devotion once at the beginning of the week and after completing the challenge at the end of the week re-read it and have realised I only retained the first half of Patter's devotion so that is the focus of mine this week.....
I didn't bother scanning it but inside the envelope is written:
The diadem of pain
which sliced your gentle face,
three spikes piercing flesh and wood
to hold you in your place.
The need for blood I understand.
Your sacrifice I embrace.
But the bitter sponge, the cutting spear,
the spit upon your face?
Did it have to be a cross?
Did not a kinder death exist
than six hours hanging between life and death,
all spurred by a betrayer's kiss?
"Oh, Father," you pose,
heart-stilled at what could be,
"I'm sorry to ask, but I long to know,
did you do this for me?"
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