{"id":4889,"date":"2011-04-22T14:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T18:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2011-04-26T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T13:23:22","slug":"on-good-friday-god-of-my-bitter-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beyondblue\/2011\/04\/on-good-friday-god-of-my-bitter-hours.html","title":{"rendered":"On Good Friday: God of My Bitter Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I thought it was appropriate to share this beautiful reflection of Joyce Rupp’s, inspired by the theologian Karl Rahner, on Good Friday. I found it in a beautiful book of reflections by Joyce Rupp called “Fragments of Your Ancient Name”<\/a> by Joyce Rupp.<\/p>\n

God of My Bitter Hours <\/strong>
\nby Joyce Rupp (Inspired by Karl Rahner)<\/p>\n

You knelt in the Gethsemane garden
\nIn the final hours before your death,
\nThe sweat of bloody regret on your brow.
\nWe, too, have our painful episodes
\nWhen the bitter taste of obvious defeat
\nBarricades any hope of comfort and release.
\nYou join us in our bitter hours of struggle
\nWhen opposition, discontent, or lament
\nBlock the corridors to our peacefulness.
\nYou reassure us, “This, too, will pass.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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