Tragedy of the Divine

Violent thunder rolls across the sky

As lightning breaks the midday darkness

Revealing the pain of the Rejected One.

Wincing with agony as the Father looks away

Hanging there, Suspended between Heaven & Earth

Knowing only sorrow, pain, and anguish

They would be His alone to bear

For no one stayed with Him that day.

The Tragedy of the Divine

The sinless One bore the weight of death

Taking to himself our wretchedness

As the Father turns His face away

The weight of sin and shame He took

For which we could not bear ourselves

Placed upon Himself what He did not deserve

Giving us the freedom we did not earn

The tragedy of the Cross of Calvary

is not the death of the man on the Cross

But in the rejection by the ones

Not receiving this gift born of suffering.