I didn't get to read this in its entirety until after holy week was over. But I very much appreciated the applications of scripture and how you related Jesus suffering in pain and fear to how we can handle the pain and fear in our own lives.
I love the point you made that we can hold both Grace for the moment and fear of the unknown. We can hold both light in the dark times and the pain of loss in our bones. And I would add that we can hold both grief and hope as well. We have to know that hope deep in our bones in order to have peace that the grief abides. Instead of seeking to eradicate the grief, we need to draw close to Jesus and allow him to sit in the grief with us. I think this is yet another mystery of his upside down kingdom.
I didn't get to read this in its entirety until after holy week was over. But I very much appreciated the applications of scripture and how you related Jesus suffering in pain and fear to how we can handle the pain and fear in our own lives.
I love the point you made that we can hold both Grace for the moment and fear of the unknown. We can hold both light in the dark times and the pain of loss in our bones. And I would add that we can hold both grief and hope as well. We have to know that hope deep in our bones in order to have peace that the grief abides. Instead of seeking to eradicate the grief, we need to draw close to Jesus and allow him to sit in the grief with us. I think this is yet another mystery of his upside down kingdom.