What must it have been like for Jesus as the darkness gathered around him on the cross? The first breach of his unbroken fellowship with the Father as he bore the world's sin?
I imagine him peering over the brink into a yawning abyss into which he knows he must descend ...
"... and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." (Isa 53)
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Oh so moving, as was the previous crossword #1
thanks for them
Posted by: Caroline | March 24, 2005 at 02:44 PM
Awe inspiring! Sent a shiver down my spine...
Posted by: Andy S | March 24, 2005 at 06:58 PM
Yes, I was thinking "Haunting"
I was part of a team sharing meditations at a service this morning (Good Friday) and I had this image in mind when I said
"and at the last, as you gazed into the pit of hell,
you saw the forgiveness and life you had given away"
thanks for moving me Richard
Posted by: Caroline | March 25, 2005 at 07:37 AM
Thanks for your comments ... glad it spoke to you. It sent a shiver down my spine too.
Posted by: Richard L | March 25, 2005 at 08:02 AM
We thinks about the brutal violence of the cross...but what spiritual torment Jesus must have felt at the thought of separation. Can we even imagine the utter horror and dispair of such a place. Thanks for emersing us in your imagination on the brink of such a place.
Posted by: ron | March 26, 2005 at 01:16 AM