Sunday, February 28, 2010

Pondering The Passion

In, The Way Of The Cross, G. K. Chesterton pondered the significance of Jesus' Passion. He offered the following reflection.

In every century, in this century, in the next century, the Passion is
what it was in the first century, when it occurred; a thing stared at by a
crowd. It remains a tragedy of the people;

a crime of the people; a consolation of the people; but never merely a
thing of the period....

It lives, because it involves the staggering story of the Creator truly
groaning and travailing
with His creation; and the highest thing thinkable passing through some nadir of the lowest
curve of the cosmos. And it lives, because the very blast from this
black cloud of death comes
the world as a wind of everlasting life; by which all things wake and are alive.

Isaac Watts penned words which seem to fit with these:

Love, so amazing, so Divine, demands my life, my soul, my all........

Still In ONE Peace,

Jon(the methodist)



1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for coming back to your blog. It means a lot to hear your thoughts on this time of year.