Sometimes I wonder
If Jesus ground his teeth
Did you wake up in the middle of the night
Feeling like you were about to fall?
From some inexplicable nightmare?
When you got through a harrowing encounter
with the officially officials—you know the ones that had been building
Did you come home with a headache?
Did you practice breathing techniques, and peaceable responses, and politeness and smiles
like most of the women, disabled people and marginalized around you…
All of us knowing—this is how we make it
Did you preach the Good News as a survival technique
Not as a toxic positivity to push on people
But the Bare Bones to give those hungry for scraps of answers of
“Why am I Here? And “Does this even Matter?” And “How Do I face tomorrow?”
And did you sit and look at the stars—Christ—and evaluate your day, and try to comfort yourself:
With the little things that went right; and the good things you saw, and the big picture you were working towards.
Did you ache with the work of it all Jesus? And roll your jaw, and take a deep breath to relax your shoulders, before you faced another fully human day?
Thank you for being human with us Jesus.
Amen.
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