Table of Contents
Acknowledgment xi
Introduction xiii
The Birth of Messiah 1
The Winged Ones 2
Mary and Elizabeth 5
Greetings, Favored One! 8
Grafted in 11
The Carpenter of Nazareth 13
A Bethlehem Memory 18
What Was God Doing When His Son Was Born? 21
Christmas at the Mall 25
Before the Journey 27
What's This I See? 30
There Was Nothing Cute About It 31
The Christmas Concert 33
My First Christmas Without You 34
Christmases 37
It Was Like Christmas 38
Cookies And Poems 40
Behold the Lamb 42
Wood And Nails 45
The Crèche 47
Setting Up the Manger Scene 50
Littleness 52
The Gift Bearers 54
December Lights 57
The Baby Next Door 59
Revive Us, Dearest Jesus 61
Simeon And Anna 64
Another Silent Night 68
'Twas the Night… of All Nights! 70
The Death of Messiah 73
Like Mary, at the Feet of Jesus 74
At Chorazin 76
Sometimes I wish 79
Jesus Laughed 81
Mary 84
Imagine 87
Ash Wednesday Reflection 89
Acceptance 91
I'm Not Jewish 93
As the Fall Holidays Approach 96
The Passover Lamb 98
The Name 100
The Lamb 102
About "The Lamb" 105
Love And the Akedah 107
The Binding of Isaac 107
A Poem for Lent 111
The Scrapbook Grandma Made for Me 114
Accustomed to the Cross 117
Paces of a Lamb 119
Between the Palms And the Cross 122
Commemorating the Last Supper 125
Better for Him Had He Not Been Born 127
At the Garden of Gethsemane 131
The Dungeon 134
Pilate's Irony 136
Remembering Good Fridays 138
The Black Bronco 140
Blood Sky Good Friday 2014, Packanack Lake, New Jersey 143
It Pleased the Lord to Crush Him 145
Father, Forgive Them 147
He Refused 149
The Heart-Wrenching Cry 151
The Pieta 153
His Little Lamb 157
At the Via Dolorosa 158
The Circumcised Heart 160
Haiku 163
The Resurrection of Messiah 165
Beautiful 166
The Place of The Skull 169
What Was God Doing? 171
It's No Wonder 174
Mary of Magdala 178
I've Read the End of the Book 182
A Very Personal Blessing 184
Extraordinary Matzoh 186
A Better Idea 188
He Is Not Here 190
Behold the Man 192
Holy Face 195
Invisible Desecrations Jerusalem Holy Places 197
Yeshua 200
Risen 202
The Emmaus Triptych 204
Along Emmaus Road 208
Sunflowers Along Emmaus Road 211
What Is Truth? 213
God's Unfathomable Love 216
Acts, Chapter 2 218
Hallelujah Hands 221
Mount Scopus 223
Marco Sounds the Shofar 225
The Little Cupola of the Tablets 227
There Are No Words 229
I Can't Make You Love Him 231
Messianic Believers and Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall 233
The Watchman 235
Wonderful News 236
Biography 239
