Issue 06 Preaching from the palaceBlog | Deepest Darkness by Jenny Hawke | Issue 06
Deepest Darkness by Jenny Hawke | Issue 06
Author: Tanya SteadPost Date: 09.04.25
A moment of the deepest darkness. The unthinkable had happened. He was gone. After the three short years of life together, their feet on harsh and dusty roads, at times rejected and at others surrounded by the crush of the poor, the sick, the hopeful and the healed. The arguments and misunderstandings, the glimpses of something else, something greater than the sum of these ragged disciples and the One who just kept walking, endlessly teaching, fearlessly challenging, healing, focused on a goal none could yet see.
He was gone. And had it all come to nothing? The garden was stripped to the darkest blackness, deserted now, only footprints remaining, telling stories of hope and despair mixed with a whirlwind of confusion. The stillness of the air, unyielding cold of the tomb and scarlet blood spilt, reminded them all of their present reality. And yet, beneath the layers of earth, in a place that none could see or comprehend, a miracle was in progress. A shifting of the natural laws, and a breaking through of the inevitability of death. A new order.
