Meal and memory

After Matthew 26:26-35

Bread and wine were

the meal, the bread

unleavened, the meal

designed as the memory

or memorial to the night

that death passed over,

the angel wreaking

destruction, looking

and passing on without

stopping. For that

to happen required

a sacrifice of an animal,

a lamb unblemished,

the blood smeared over 

the door, a sign, the sign

of the lamb, the lamb was

a sign, the angel a reality.

A lamb had to die

so those within could

live.

Bread and wine were

the meal, the bread

unleavened, the meal

designed as a sign

and a reality.

Photograph by James Coleman via Unsplash. Used with permission.