Offering

By Margaret Brown Jorgensen

He bore Atonement’s agony

By love empowered,

That else were unsustained.

Thus forged,

Sacrificial tender

Bears His image now.

In my finite heart,

The chafing years

Of too-terrestrial time

Had brought myopic hope’s erosion,

Till suddenly, laser-like,

The glory of His Gift

Unveiled a wonder of eternity:

Premortal love—

An echoing—revealed

A deep and poignant need in me

To feel your mortal pain;

Thus, we both are healed.

The Christus, by Bertel Thorvaldsen