Sublime

take up the practices of weeping and watching compels us to work, and our work is shaped and sanctified by being people who, through embodied and habitual practices, have learned to weep and to watch.

Sorrow must be allowed to blossom into self-forgetful love of God.

the focus on Jesus as a continuous human subject, born, maturing, dying.

benediction.

They form us into a people who can hold the depths of our sorrow with utter honesty even as we hold to the promises of God.

the identity of Jesus as human sufferer and the further identity of that suffering with the divine action are never eclipsed in the language of Christian Scripture.

And so there are many wells which, like Madron, are named now for the saints – but under their shallow surface ripples lie the deep, clear traces of far older stories.