Sunday, November 3, 2019

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.

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