{"id":1740,"date":"2012-10-19T12:39:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2012-10-19T12:39:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T17:39:18","slug":"why-jesus-wept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christophers\/2012\/10\/why-jesus-wept\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Jesus Wept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m reading author Colleen Carroll Campbell\u2019s<\/a> upcoming book \u201cMy Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir\u201d in preparation for an interview with her next week. It\u2019s a deeply moving, deeply personal book in which Colleen shares many of her struggles, including the challenge of suffering through Alzheimer\u2019s disease with her father. <\/p>\n

The following passage about the moments after her father\u2019s death is especially poignant and insightful, so I wanted to share it here:<\/p>\n

I thought of that story in the Gospel where Jesus is told that his friend Lazarus has died. \u201cHe wept,\u201d it says, in a line that always puzzled me. Why would Jesus \u2013 the all-powerful, all-knowing Savior who conquered death by his resurrection \u2013 weep? And why would he weep just moments before raising Lazarus from the dead?<\/p>\n

Remembering how Dad\u2019s broken-down body had strained violently for every breath at the end, I finally understood. Jesus wept because death is a horror \u2013 every death, even the death of a good man, even the death of someone on his way back to God. Jesus wept because death, like Alzheimer\u2019s\u2026was never what he wanted for us. It was not part of God\u2019s original plan. Jesus saved us from death\u2019s finality; he brings greater good out of its pain; but death still horrifies us because that\u2019s the very nature of death: horrifying.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do yourself a favor and pre-order \u201cMy Sisters the Saints.\u201d <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m reading author Colleen Carroll Campbell\u2019s upcoming book \u201cMy Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir\u201d in preparation for an interview with her next week. It\u2019s a deeply moving, deeply personal book in which Colleen shares many of her struggles, including the challenge of suffering through Alzheimer\u2019s disease with her father. 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