Mark 14:36
On the other side of suffering, I see your transforming
work, O God. But when I read this single verse, Jesus’ plea to you, I go back
to my season of suffering and my wish to run away from it.
A wise guide spoke hard truth to me when she said to stay
with my pain. Let it be my teacher. I did not want to hear those words, but I
received them. I lived them, through days and weeks and months, walking the
thin line between despair and hope.
I did not numb myself to the pain, but felt it as fully
as I was capable of feeling it. And even for that, I was derided by the same
ones whose words and deeds had already exiled me.
But because I did not numb myself, did not avoid the
pain, I now sing with unfettered joy the song of salvation and new life. I am
redeemed and reborn! Thanks be to God! Amen.
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