Believe at last

O Master,
how can we have come to this place in time
where what we fear most is about to happen
for the sake of what we desire most?

How can the Son of the Promise,
our Only Son,
be required of us,
and in such a brutal offering?

How can we go on?
What must we find on the other side of the Sacrifice?

We know, no better than Your mother
and Your first disciples knew,
what we will find there.

We only have Your words,
just as they first heard them,
‘Father, the hour has come:
glorify Your Son
so that Your Son may glorify You’,
and like them,
we cannot bear to hear You ask us,
‘Do you believe at last?’
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