Mood swings

Sometimes we don*t pay attention to the emotion-rich part of Holy Week.  Sometimes it seems easier to picture Jesus walking through the week and coming out the other side unscathed, even as we know we would not be unscathed ourselves.  Still... Jesus is the Son of God, right?  Right?  Tell me.

This week is rich in emotion

All sorts of emotion.

I wonder if Jesus had mood swings,

Certainly this week of all weeks,

I wonder.

Did he continue on

Steady as a rock

On that donkey

Through Jerusalem

Palm Sunday through to the cross

And out the other side?

Did he wait for the Garden that night

To complain,

To feel a little low?

And then

Was it a real low?

Or only a dip?

Was Jesus like me?

Mood swings and all?

Tell me he was.

Tell me he felt low before

He was finally lifted up,

After the cross

After the burial

The final lifting up

Out of the tomb

Framed in angels and forsythia

Wild blooming yellow?

Tell me he knew full joy 

then.