Friday, June 27, 2014

Jesus Began to Weep – v2

We heard a story, a very personal, very public story
of the friend who died, the friends who didn’t understand
who wept because he hadn’t come
because their brother had died
they didn’t comprehend who he was,
not fully, not really, not when it most mattered,
not understanding, seeing, in that moment believing,
what his personage meant, the power he had
over life, over death, over our lives
He wept for our ignorance, our unbelief,
the corruption of the conserver mentality of the powers that be
because they want to retain the powers they have
He wept for the friend who had to die, who must be
sacrificed, as he would be, so we would see, understand
be illuminated to who he was, because we were too weak
to hear and believe without seeing. He wept for the sisters
who had cried when he hadn’t come, for the pain they suffered.
He wept for the brothers who followed him, not seeing , really.
He wept for the elders; maybe, just maybe, he wept for himself
Jesus began to weep, tears that ultimately healed


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edited June 27, 2014
Jesus Began to Weep – v2
November 8, 2006 1:17am
Jesus Began to Weep
John 11:32-44
35 Jesus began to weep
and sermon by the Reverend Peter Hey
Wesley United Methodist Church
November 5, 2006

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