Holy Week at Home: Love Gets Buried

On Good Friday, we remember the story of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial.  Immanuel, God with Us, Incarnate Love, is lynched at the hands of the world’s powers and made a martyr.  With the disciples, we mourn and fear what comes next.  And so, we live out this story by remembering that on this day that Incarnate Love is buried… But that’s not the end.  So, we watch and wait for what is to come.  Resurrection.  New Life.

To embody this story, you’re invited to take the hearts paper clipped to the baggie of soil.  In the paper’s fibers you can see a few flecks of color; these are wildflower seeds.  Find a small mug that you can live without for a few weeks.

Put about half of the soil from the baggie on the bottom of the mug, and then arrange your seed paper hearts to cover the surface of the dirt.

Cover the seed paper hearts with the remaining soil (they need about ⅛ inch), and give them a bit of water.

Find somewhere warm and sunny to place your mug.

Each time you see this, may it remind you that in Jesus Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and by God’s abundant grace:

Love lived and taught, healed and reconciled;

Love was crucified, died, and was buried;

Love was resurrected to new life;

Love lives and moves, breathes and dances among us still;

Love wins.

Lindsey Altvater Clifton