Palm/Passion Sunday

Dear Lord,

Keep us with you as you enter the gates greeted by cheers.

Keep us with you as you teach and talk and debate and overturn.

Keep us with you as you sup and pray.

Keep us with you as you give yourself and hurry the others away.

Keep us with you as you stand accused with none to defend you.

Keep us with you as you are sentenced, beaten, and led away.

Keep us with you as you climb your ugly throne.

Keep us with you as you are jeered and derided.

Keep us with you as you cry aloud.

Keep us with you as you die upon that tree…

….That we may have life, all because you have kept us with you.

Amen.