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Picture Study - On Friday when the sky was dark 

(While reading the words and reflecting on the pictures on this page, you may like to listen to the music here which was recorded especially this week for churches like ours who cannot gather in their own buildings)


Improvisation on the hymn tune "Hamburg" by Sarah Bereza.

 

On Friday, when the sky was dark,
disciples fled in fright
and dazed, through Saturday, they wait
the dawn of Sunday's light.

From dull despair to blazing light,
from agony and death,
God's people sought for grace and hope,
and for the Spirit's breath.

The silent waking of the Christ
brought all the world to praise,
as death was done and life re-born
with hope for all our days.

That hope returns with each new year,
the prompt for faith's re-birth
and brighter than a thousand suns
God's glory flames on earth!

As new life forces through the earth,
the world is sprung with green,
and all creation rings again
as joy is sung and seen.

© Andrew Pratt (2005)