I wish I could share with you all something inspiring and well-written and beautiful. However, really, today is not about being inspiring and well-written and beautiful. It's about shame and agony and death. It's about justice carried out by cruelty, like a king with a crown of thorns.
Today we received news that both an extended-family member and a friend died. One was very old and in poor health for a while, the other was a wee tyke who departed suddenly.
How apt that this should happen now, because it's about this time of year that Christians are reminded strongly of how weak the grip of death has become. It's when, even as we remember Christ being beaten and nailed to a cross, we remember the tearing of a curtain and an empty tomb. When Jesus said, "It is finished", He really meant it.
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