For the Ones Who Are Weeping

It’s labeled as “triumphant” but it began in tears.

We’re quick to skip past the weeping to the waving of palm branches, but there’s a church in the shape of a teardrop built on the western slope of the Mount of Olives, like a hand reaching out inviting you to stop, stay a while, and see.

Matthew, the disciple and Gospel writer who intentionally wrote to the Jewish people, again and again showing how Jesus was and is the Messiah who fulfills the prophecies of the Old Testament… he’s careful, one...