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His Communion
by Major David Laeger

Based upon Luke 24:13-35


Quickly passed three days,
yet slow the hours of daze;
so suddenly condemned,
so long the night’s delays;
their words in anger raged,
soft answers from Him came.
We would not rescue make
for Him, we lost all strength,
as if some evil power
had occupied that place.

Quantum scenes that night
remained before our eyes;
much drama, much surprise.
What drove them to despise?
How could they tell such lies?
How could they overlook
the texts which gave clear proof?
He lived among them truth,
His messianic signs
they knew from ancient times.

Questions rise, answers hide:
Why Him? Why crucify?

Quaking earth, darkening noon,
we feared to stay, we feared to move.
When came late afternoon
He quoted psalms, and soon
His love brought entrance
to the Eternal Room.

Quiet was the Sabbath Day,
we sat behind closed doors,
shedding tears of remorse.
Today has come with force –
some women gave report
that they had seen the Lord.
We doubted them at first,
for we had seen Him as if cursed,
the Man consumed with love
whom they esteemed as worst.

Quite puzzled as we walked,
our footsteps often balked
in rhythm with our thought.
A Stranger then appeared,
we brushed away our tears.
He questioned our despair –
was He so unaware
of word spread far and near?

Quickening speech led our pace.
Gradually we felt grace
while listening to Him trace
the history of our race.
Pesach past was no waste,
purpose filled every space.
What seemed to us disgrace
He showed that Christ should taste
of death for every race –
then we bid Him stay, for it was late.

“Quaint our home and small,
please come before night fall.
Tell more, we are in awe.”
Look! How He breaks the bread.
Ah! While on the road we tread
our hearts burned as He taught,
and to our home He brought
the truth for which we sought.

Quivering eyes His Presence caught
and Love communed within our thought.
Our home became a place well known,
to us it was as heaven’s throne.
As Jesus blessed our humble bread
He disappeared, but all He said
remains the choice of food we’re fed.

Quintessential rapture filled us there,
an essence more than purest air,
more than all earth’s nature fair,
more than the altar-kindled fire,
more than water’s freshening shower –
such is His communion power.
Amen.


 

 

 

 

   

 

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