Does the Father in heaven suffer His own Gethsemane? Always there is this notion of a distant Father in heaven, detached from His sons suffering. All that matters in so much of Christian thought is the satisfaction of the justice of God. As if He sits on the sidelines of His Son's great suffering, a great stern figure, immovable in His austerity, and gives a very masculine nod of approval. "Suck it up, Son. The work is almost done."
I don't think I could not break at the loss of a child either. If the Son is sympathetic in His suffering to our own, the Father also, surely, at the loss of His Son. He desires us all as His children. He sent His Son not to condemn but to liberate the world.
The pain is overwhelming. What use is God to us when our prayers fall into silence as our children die?
I did not want to bury her.
I don't know, brother. I sometimes think my whole life has been living through my father's death. The death of one of my children would break me.
Does the Father in heaven suffer His own Gethsemane? Always there is this notion of a distant Father in heaven, detached from His sons suffering. All that matters in so much of Christian thought is the satisfaction of the justice of God. As if He sits on the sidelines of His Son's great suffering, a great stern figure, immovable in His austerity, and gives a very masculine nod of approval. "Suck it up, Son. The work is almost done."
I don't think I could not break at the loss of a child either. If the Son is sympathetic in His suffering to our own, the Father also, surely, at the loss of His Son. He desires us all as His children. He sent His Son not to condemn but to liberate the world.
We are all the walking wounded, and as painful as it can be, that solidarity gives us something to build on together.
It is real, undeniable, and our opportunity to be Christ-like to one another.