What, you ask? Or who? When? Where? Why?
All good questions.......
Lenten readings this season have been getting to me...causing some real deep breaths to be taken. I am shaken...and I am grateful for that. The all to real issue of suffering...Jesus' suffering...has taken on meaning I don't think I've experienced in all the years of being a Christ-follower.
For all you out there who are much more sainted that I, I state the obvious...someone really did die for you and me. They gave up their life...drained their blood dry through open wounds for you and me.
Has that truth ever truly, deeply pierced your soul...to a point of tears of awe at the horror and love of it all?
For whatever the Spirit's reasons this morning, as I was driving south on I-25, I found myself weeping a bit. What if my precious wife had been born to die...for me...for others? Or...what if our 31yo daughter had been born to die for you, for me? Or...what if you had been the chosen one? Imagine if you, and a lot of other people, could live...IF...someone you love dies. Just think of the last baby you held...or, if a parent, holding your kiddos as babies...and then one day you became aware that that child had to die so others could live.
Whew..........
...so many questions and feelings today about all this. Someone did it...for us...and all others...and the whole cosmos. Are you and I, then, willing to follow that person...no matter the cost?
Deep down, I hear that question in a new way.
Do you?
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