As a culture we tend to move quickly over suffering. Until great loss has entered your life, it is easy to mouth the (useless) advice of 'let it all go' and 'it's time to move on.' Deep suffering, deep grief leave real scars on your heart and your life.
Certainly the disciples fast lost hope as they watched Jesus die. We know about that kind of gathering darkness, where our breath becomes more shallow and our will begins to fade. Despair hovers.
So it is no surprise that even people of faith are prone to leap frog over the dark events of Holy Week so to take up the bright beauty of Easter morning. Yet without the stark darkness of death, the miracle of resurrection loses its capacity to astonish.
We know suffering. Jesus knew suffering. This is what binds us together in reality. Walk with Jesus this week and consider what God might be saying to you about life, about death and about love.
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