Jesus was crucified, died and was buried. He descended to the dead (into hell). The following was written while I prayed with these sentences from the Apostles' Creed....and with the image in this posting. Church tradition speaks of the Harrowing of Hell, when Christ moved in and about the souls imprisoned in hell, freeing them to eternal life.....
The Harrowing of Hell
I wail and grovel in torment….
Body long worm eaten, my soul is empty…agonized…
Every small or grand wrong I ever did is wrapped around what’s left of my spirit’s heart…like cords of iron. Every motion I make clamps the vice of my sin another degree…and every day I am drawn more deeply into the yawning chasm that is eternal….dark….despair. I thought death was finality…that it was total nonexistence….
That would have been better… far better.
The empty desolation of all that I ever was is aware of the skulking presence
Oh my soul… it is the Angel of Darkness… holding me in its chilling burning clench…. Providing empty infusions that sustain me with perpetual, hopeless LOSS….
In the center of my heart, yet in the remote distance I hear LOVE silently moaning….A strong yet beaten voice cries out “Father…. Why have you forsaken me?”
Then…. From beyond wherever I am, a stirring of windy breath and a voice crying out. It splits the cosmos with: “It is finished….”
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In the center of my desire, yet in the remote distance something stirs…. Like new life nestled deeply in a womb…
Chains, shackles and weights are loosened, lifted up in life breathing joy…
Eyes long dissolved see Love and hear forgiveness claiming a parched soul. I am enfolded…claimed…. Gathered into the ONE who formed fibers and flesh in the bowels of the earth long before time began…before there ever was time….
Alpha…Omega….Priestly Beloved Companion….Oh Lord… My God…. How can it be that you came here to find me?
What more can I say…..Ah…..Holy Jesus…. Thank you…….
Copyright 2008. Pamela Czarnota. All rights reserved. Permission granted upon request.
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