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“Good Friday 2020,” “Holy Saturday 2020,” and “Easter Sunday 2020,” by Kris Yee
It is a little death to sit indoors
for weeks in weakness, measuring your sin,
to stare at what you are and who you’ve been
to hear the telltale thump beneath the floor.
I don’t–Oh, God—believe the Savior felt
the leaden weight of shame inside His gut.
A Son of Seth, He never knew just what
it meant to bring your best and fail. The guilt…
Caravaggio’s Black Paint
By Toby Klingsmith
I often wonder why we are so afraid of the dark. It has no substance, no power, and is in nearly every conceivable measure non-existent. It is a lack—physically, a lack of light, and spiritually, a lack of knowledge.
The cliché stands true: we fear what we do not understand. We fear what we cannot control. “Where am I going to go to school?” “Where am I going to live in two months?” “When will God heal my mother?” Because such spiritual darknesses frighten us, we begin to villainize them. But when we attempt to fight them, we are fighting nothing…