This is the midway point for this witness to the journey of Jesus to crucifixion, who began by saying “I don’t want a God who ends up in the dirt” (See the First Fall), yet who chooses to continue the journey.  In this tile the heart is moving closer to the rocks of the earth, and to being claimed by the ground in burial.  There are stress marks in the clay and brokenness in the heart.

Station 9- Jesus Falls the Third Time

Your weakness grows more evident, Jesus.

You fall again.

The women of Jerusalem who cried for you–

wept– reached out– you thought of them,

not yourself. I will not abandon a God

who stumbles for all the right reasons.

We’re almost to the hill.

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