Lent Devotional: RestoreSample

Restore: Devastating beauty Devastating beauty On Friday my hope died. The sky wept itself dark the ground broke apart and all creation cried for the bloodied innocence hammered into a tree. There were whispers of a torn curtain but they didn’t reach my ears or mend my mangled heart or stem the bitter tears as we took the body down. On Saturday we grieved, hiding from the troops whom we’d once believed would be overthrown by the carpenter’s boy, who had preached and fed and healed and was now dead. But then on Sunday – the devastating beauty of that Sunday – when time and space were blown out of shape and angels wrapped in electric grace rolled the impossible away. He is not here they proclaimed for glory had risen our failings were forgiven and the rules of time and space were rewritten as an empty tomb declared: Love is alive. Gideon Heugh, Tearfund