God.

We would love a good parade,
with you as the grand marshal, and on every float.

A crowd cheering, a flag squad
waving branches.

We’d say, after you passed,
“Hosanna. I gotta remember that.”

Later, we’d watch for #Jesusisinthecity.
And scroll past to smiling donkey pictures
and shake our heads at the latest religious scandal.
And listen to interviews with a small business man,
a money changer whose day was turned upside down
by a religious zealot.

And then watch a rerun of the makeover of some house
with a hole in the roof, filmed up by the sea.

All of it novel. All of it disjointed.

But you, Jesus, you were inside it all, building the story.
Help us this week to not scroll past your story,
to not be distracted by controversy and chaos.

Help us hear your voice.

Amen.