#becauseofRHE

A grief like this

makes

the world feel

Empty

Meaningless 

Hostile.

Jesus literally wept.

Even though resurrection was coming.

Because

Hope doesn’t always assuage grief. 

The cold doesn’t always go away,

Even when friends are packed in next to the tomb. 

Even though resurrection was coming,

Jesus’s tears dropped into cold pools of grief. 

And in the moment,

Even he knew,

Grief comes before hope. 

And a hope rushed is not hope,

But a way people refuse to be baptized in tears of God. 

God. 

God.

God.

Oh my God.

#prayforRHE #becauseofRHE