For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain

by Victoria Mackenzie

Grief marks a person, changing them for ever, like a tree struck by lightning. The tree may keep growing, but never in the same way.

Jesus Christ affirmed his pleasure in suffering for my sake. And I thought how Christ is like a mother, and loves us like a mother. Didn’t he labour in agony on the cross that we might have life?

I wanted my mind to be driven deep into God like a nail.