Here I am Lord, a contemplation for the Passion

 

Here I am Lord, pinioned by intolerable pain.

I lie on the cross with you 

and find that my heart too is miraculously opened and so, in some mysterious way, 

I too am held 

in the Glory and the Mercy 

of the Passion.

Thus I am changed for evermore, 

knowing that, even in the centre 

of the most horrendous, indescribable pain, 

I am closer still to you 

and can reach out to feel you with me 

in this most barren 

and bleakest of places. 

There is no place that you are not 

and therefore even here I am safe, 

for Your love strengthens me 

and my tiny flicker of light 

is part of your vast 

and infinite being.