Maundy Thursday's Scattering
To trick the devouring wolf
the shepherd smears himself in the blood of branded sheep attacked earlier by wolves so that the predator comes for him. Thus diverted, the wolf meets raging shepherd’s crook while lambs scamper safely away. Among wolves so goes the Good Shepherd in solidarity-sheep’s clothing, stripped and dressed as Passover lamb thrown to military pack of snarling rage so that all humanity’s lost sheep can scamper safe into the arms of God bleeding out love, branding all with a cross, “Beloved.” ©2009, Tess Lockhart. All rights reserved. |