Some resources for you to engage with as provoked by today’s chapter from our lent book, ‘The Passion and the Cross’ by Ron Roheiser.
Mother Theresa’s Dark Night of the Soul
A fascinating read of the life of Mother Theresa with an emphasis on the season of her life whereby her felt ‘abandonment by God led to her abandonment to God’! Take some time to engage with this article.
The Soundtrack of Gethsemane
Because the truth of this event cannot be captured by thought alone…
Gethsemane: A Poem
In golden youth when seems the earth
A Summer-land of singing mirth,
When souls are glad and hearts are light,
And not a shadow lurks in sight,
We do not know it, but there lieu
Somewhere veiled under evening skies
A garden which we all must see –
The garden of Gethsemane.
With joyous steps we go our ways,
Love lends a halo to our days;
Light sorrows sail like clouds afar,
We laugh, and say how strong we are.
We hurry on; and hurrying, go
Close to the borderland of woe
That waits for you, and waits for me –
Forever waits Gethsemane.
Down shadowy lanes, across strange streams,
Bridged over by our broken dreams;
Behind the misty caps of years,
Beyond the great salt fount of tears,
The garden lies. Strive as you may,
You cannot miss it in your way;
All paths that have been, or shall be,
Pass somewhere through Gethsemane.
All those who journey, soon or late,
Must pass within the garden’s gate;
Must kneel alone in darkness there,
And battle with some fierce despair.
God pity those who cannot say,
“Not mine but Thine”; who only pray
“Let this cup pass,” and cannot see
The PURPOSE in Gethsemane.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox