As we spend these days with the women of Holy Week and Easter, today’s reflection draws our attention to the wife of Pilate. We see her just this once, emerging from the background to speak an urgent word to her husband on behalf of Jesus.
Text
The Dream
Send to those
on the judgment seats.
Tell them all
of visions,
of dreams.
Stand at their windows
with songs of hope.
Beat down their doors
with prayers for wisdom.
Cover their desks
with charms for justice.
Surround their meeting-rooms
with oracles of freedom.
Hurl prophecies of peace
at their tallest buildings.
Weave banners of healing
along their freeways.
Write this message
in the smog-filled skies:
tell them
we have suffered much
for the dreams we bear
and washing your hands
is not enough.
From Sacred Journeys © Jan L. Richardson
