Offering

The day is offered up at the altar

All the tears, all pain, all fears,

All joy, all happiness, all rejoicing

Is gently laid and wrapped up

In the shadow of the cross that

Shows love and sorrow, weighted

And mingled in the juxtaposition

Of life and death hung suspended

Between two worlds not really

Belonging to either one, yet here

We come in the new day to receive

All we can pouring out our lives

And fears rolled up in the persons

We encounter as we stand at

The side of the bed and pray in

Earnest to the God of healing and love