When we cry from the crosses where we were crushed or betrayed, we’re often treated with extreme awkwardness or even flat-out spiritualized shaming, as though Christ’s resurrection means that nothing hurts now. When we feel silenced spiritually, cut off from the song of the saints and confused about why church hurts so much, our wordlessness, doubts, and darkness are treated like a lack of resurrection faith. But before Christ was raised, he was cold and silent in a grave for a whole day. The Word who spoke the world into being went to the wordless place of death. He sank into silence. Courage
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