Station 3 : Jesus Falls the First Time

The title of this set of 14 Stations is The Weight of Dust.  The set contains the traditional stations rooted in church history.  The photos are of clay tiles framed in pine and completed in 2008.  After completing the clay work I responded to the process by writing poems beginning with Station 4: Jesus and His Mother, a tile completed during Advent of  2007 and personally meaningful.  Station 4 will be posted on Wednesday, March 3rd of this year, 2010. The tiles and images and poems are the property of the artist.  Contact her for permission to use.

Station 3  — Jesus Falls the First Time

Jesus, I leave now.

The cross upon your back

was hard enough to witness–

Now you fall.

I don’t want a stumbling God.

I don’t want a God who ends up in the dirt.

Yet there is something compelling here.

I’ll walk a little farther.