The Atonement is in the Blood

As we draw near to Passover and Good Friday, I would like to share a poem that I wrote about an experience I had last year at this time...

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BLOOD SKY—

Good Friday 2014, Packanack Lake, New Jersey

“I will display wonders in the sky and on the earth, blood, fire and columns of smoke. The sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.” Joel 2:30-31 NASB

The alarm went off at 3:00 a.m., Tuesday

We went outdoors to gaze at the sky

hoping to get a glimpse

of the first blood moon of the tetrad—

Passover, 2014

It was there, but we couldn’t see it

Dense clouds obscured our view

Blood moon or not, this week is crimson—

I’ve been thinking about blood in the Nile

blood on the lintels

death of the firstborn sons

Today is Good Friday

I am meditating upon the atonement

the Cross and death of the Savior

I bought blood oranges in Fairway, yesterday

Had one for breakfast

Now it’s evening—

I’m on my way to the Good Friday service

at the Jerusalem Center in Wayne

As I drive down Osborne Terrace

approaching Packanack Lake

the sky is incredible—amazing—red as blood

fiery red, red like I’ve never seen it before

As the setting sun shines on the still lake

the water mirrors the brilliant crimson firmament

and I think of old Moses

as he dipped his staff into the Nile river

At the Jerusalem Center, the dancers

extol the Lamb Who was slain, and

Jonathan speaks of the sun setting and rising—

endings and beginnings

and I feel God may be telling us something, or

am I so strongly aware of Him this holy week

that I am seeing Him everywhere

and in every blessed thing

Maude Carolan Pych