Palm Sunday shouting

Between parades

We're good at planning!

Give us a task force

and a project

and we're off and running!

No trouble at all!

Going to the village and finding the colt,

even negotiating with the owners

is right down our alley.

And how we love a parade!

In a frenzy of celebration

we gladly focus on Jesus

and generously throw our coats

and palms in his path.

And we can shout praise

loudly enough

to make the Pharisees complain.

It's all so good!

It's in between parades that

we don't do so well.

From Sunday to Sunday

we forget our Hosannas.

Between parades

the stones will have to shout

because we don't.

Ann Weems, Kneeling in Jerusalem (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1994) p. 69

Image Credit: Palm Sunday, a painting by African artist Evans Yegon