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Holy Saturday prayer

"Help me stay with the transformative tomb./ Help me trust it’s not over," writes Arianne Braithwaite Lehn.

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Savior Jesus…

I hope I would have been with Joseph of Arimathea…

But would I have been?

Would I have stood vigil beside him,
mixing the myrrh,
tearing the cloth,
swallowing my screams in
the darkest silence?

Would I have wrapped you in
the bands of my own brokenness,
hearing your wailing mother outside
who once tore cloth and wrapped you with
swaddling bands of love and light?

Would I have asked for her courage,
her...

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