Together: Adam, Hanna, 18 months, Tameeka, Caleb, 8, and Isaac McIntosh, 6, with GVCF Church senior minister Jeremy Rensford.
Photo by
Rodney Braithwaite
Hope is hardest to find in the depths of despair.
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The Easter story does not shrink from this harsh reality — the events that unfolded on what we call ‘Good’ Friday were anything but ‘good’. It was the worst day, a day when darkness reigned. A day of betrayal and brutality, of accusation and abandonment, of injustice and inhumanity — death and destruction.
Cruel tyrants and violent rulers had their way on ‘Good’ Friday — hope seemed dead and buried. A ray of light, however, broke through the depths of Jesus’ dark tomb. Light dawned after the darkest hour, life emerged from death and hope crushed despair.
As a community, we have our times of darkness and despair, but let us remember hope this Easter season. Our prayer for every person, every family, is that we all have someone to love, something purposeful to do and, above all, hope.
For although we shed tears throughout our darkest night, joy comes in the morning.
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