It's been an interesting and busy week, but, outside of my Monday-night small group's discussion of Passover, I haven't paid much attention to the upcoming Easter celebration, much beyond buying Peeps1 for my chemistry classes' gas-laws demonstrations. I have foregone many of the typical Eastertime traditions - nothing given up for Lent, the extent of my fasting was for a blood test one afternoon, reading things other than scripture.
In what can only be characterized as a half-assed attempt at remembrance, I started collecting some songs in a Holy Week playlist, of sorts. I've been listening to it in the car most of the week. A mix of praise, darkness, reinvented hymns, redemption, and, ultimately, love.
Jesus Paid It All, Mosaic Worship
...o praise the one who paid my debt and raised this life up from the dead...
The Eleventh Hour, Jars of Clay
...I'll find you when I think I'm out of time...
The Wonderful Cross, Chris Tomlin (and maybe Matt Redman?)
...bids me come and die and find that I may truly live...
What Wondrous Love, Jars of Clay
...while millions join the theme...
Beautiful, Scandalous Night, Smalltown Poets
...at the wonderful, tragic, mysterious tree/ on that beautiful scandalous night you and me/ were atoned by His blood and forever washed white...
O Come and Mourn With Me Awhile, Jars of Clay
...and victory remains with love...
Martyrs and Thieves, Jennifer Knapp
...where there is peace and love in the light...
Everything, Lifehouse
not particularly Eastery, but it's just one of my favorites
Love Song, Third Day
This song provokes a physical response in me like none other.
...and I know that you don't understand the fullness of my love/how I died upon the cross for your sins/and I know that you don't realize how much that I give you/ and I promise you I would do it all again...
Marvelous Light, Charlie Hall
Another one I included just because I like it.
...see the light that I have found...
Bread and Wine, Campus House
I don't even know what the real name of this song is or how to attribute it - it's ripped from a 11-year-old CD from a campus ministry - but it's lovely. I can't quite make out all the lyrics, but here are some of them:
Eat my bread
Drink my wine
Bitterness yields to the sweet
[? ?]
I watch you lie upon your bed
of reminiscent regret
and I would simply like to say
that I will not let go
Drink my wine
Eat my bread
Raise your glass of tears and laugh instead
It's funny you should pray, I must say
I was just thinking about you
thinking about the day
when you said you will not let go
One death [debt?]
One breath [bread?]
One blood
One Father's little baby boy
One truth
One man
And [?] passion
One night
Flesh is bread
Blood is wine
Give and take if you are
so inclined
Lose yourself in me
and I will be the whole of you
Take your brother's hand and say
that you will not let go
1 Side note on Easter candy: When I was growing up, my grandmother (who lived with us), always bought me a hollow chocolate bunny. They're always dreadfully cheap and waxy chocolate, but I always looked forward to receiving that bunny! I'd eat the ears first, and leave the sugar eyes for last. It's been a dozen years since she passed away, and even more since she last bought me a hollow bunny, but every year since, I have bought myself one. This year, though, I went upmarket with Lindt. Only because Target didn't have much of the bunny species for which I was looking by the end of the week - only solid chocolate, or else abominations like Butterfinger-Bunnies.
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