Take This Cup

Take this Cup!

Jesus washes feet;

challenges us to acts of humanity.

His form - a servant!

Gives a new commandment:

love one another,

just as I have loved you.

Abba, Father,

O my Father,

if possible,

take this cup . . .

from me:

yet . . .

not as I,

but as thou wilt.

This cup of salvation,

this blood,

this deed of redemption

this sacrament -

I remember.

I rejoice.

© Russell Kendall Carter