a broken heart love's cradle is

I've spent the last day re-connecting with my beautiful baby (my twelve string guitar). Together, we have really dove into the following song. As one who has come to know something about communal mourning, let me invite you into a week of mourning "our lord is crucified." please read the lyrics and let them take sorriful root in your soul - so that this sunday will be all the sweeter - and the eschatological sunday all the more longed for.

O come and mourn with me awhile,
O come ye to the Savior’s side
O come, together let us mourn,
Jesus our Lord is crucified.

Seven times He spake seven words of love;
And all three hours His silence cried
For mercy on the souls of men;
Jesus our Lord is crucified.

O love of God! O sin of man!
In this dread act Your strength is tried;
And victory remains with love;
Jesus our Lord is crucified!

O break, O break, hard heart of mine!
Thy weak self-love and guilty pride
His Pilate and His Judas were:
Jesus our Lord is crucified.

A broken heart, a fount of tears,
Ask, and they will not be denied;
A broken heart love’s cradle is:
Jesus our Lord is crucified.