rrodriguez

A Borrowed Life

On a borrowed donkey he rode into the city

amid the welcome and cheers of the crowd;

a rug of palm branches looked very pretty

you can hear their Hosannas wild and loud.

 

With borrowed bread He fed the hungry

On the grassy mountainside;

With borrowed fish and without money

He fed them all far and wide.

 

On a borrowed boat in which to sit

to teach the people the Word;

He borrowed a bed in which to sleep -

The words He uttered the heart stirred.

 

He borrowed a room to eat the Passover

where He and his apostles sat gathered;

eagerly waiting before the evening passed over

to reveal how his body would be battered.

 

They borrowed a stretcher to lay his body,

they borrowed the winding sheet;

his face and body were bloodied

all the way down to his humble feet.

 

But the crown that he wore & the cross that he bore

they were his to endured on that dark day in history;

to bring salvation to the broken millions & more.