Creation laments

Good Friday Prayer

Universal Christ, 
You create space for 
our deepest grief.
You understand our losses, 
You feel our pain,
You cry our tears.
The entire creation 
laments with you, and
You with them.

May we allow ourselves 
to fully feel into the
sorrow of the world, 
the sorrow of this day.
May we look death 
in the face
and sit with it a while
until its meaning sinks 
into our bones and 
through it we begin to 
understand life.
Amen.

- Wendy Janzen