Easter Station #1

This is what I'm doing for my local church. For Station 1 we'll have a 3D Jesus figurine - the body is a cloth with "I Am" statements printed on it. The head will hopefully be a projection of a looped movie of faces of Jesus paintings through the ages (fortunately I don't have to make this!).

We'll display the Bible text
STATION 1: Christ is Brought Before Pilate
Luke 23: 13-24

here it begins
each season, each moment

a slow dance of death
grace seeping from the world
as though to disappear forever

an open invitation
to be undone, or revived
perhaps both

so lonely the journey
one we can’t bear to watch
much less walk 

a path not taken,
at least not before this day,
in this way

we wish that he, like we
could take a road more travelled
instead of these twisted stairs
like a dark forest
shadows loom with each step
powers poise in balance

like a danger cry
harsh words eclipse hope
crucify him! crucify him!

even today mystery hangs waiting
is he for or against us?
would we praise or punish?
defend or deny?
can love make this journey
without being dissembled by evil?

walk on in this twilight
if you desire the courage
to find yourself in this story

walk on in this twilight
if you long for patience
to wait through the night beyond

walk on in this twilight
if you seek for faith to believe that God
can be so weak, yet this large

walk and watch
wait and wonder

place a stone in your shoe
as you walk this path

may it break your skin
and spike your soul
may it alter your path
may pain birth promise

may love burst through
flesh and bone
spirit and soul
so that hope may rise again
and earth and heaven be as one

walk on
knowing that love also
walks this lonely road
with you

walk on


There will be a bowl small stones with an invitation to people to place one in their shoe as they walk through the stations, There will also be a white 'wall' with an invitation to people to write the words "crucify him!". I'm still working on the wording of this. And some music playing - probaly something discordant like Mogwai or "The Dirty Three"