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| Garden Of Gethsemane |
“At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden…” (John 19; 41)
This is not a casual remark from John.
In the place where they snatch the life from Jesus, in all cruelty and pain, there, there was a garden.
Where torture and hatred try to bring to silence Him who was opening up the way to the new, to light, just there, there was a garden.
Where the religious and political power came together to put a stop to the man from Nazareth who scandalized their fake morality and the corruption of their ways, in that same place there were flowers and the fresh smell of spring.
Where there was the absence of friends and disciples, where there was announcement of cowardice and betrayal, where there was denial and fear in that same place birds sang their daily praise to creation.
Where oppressors smiled and greeted the guardians of death, the breeze danced among the tress and their dance brought with it a fresh perfume of life.
Where two men in solidarity took into their arms an innocent body to place it in a tomb, there, there was a garden.
A garden would soon become the sacred place of the most marvelous subversion of all times: the resurrection.
Torture, innocent deaths, intrigues of power, oppression, darkness, they continue to be part of human history, they are present still today.
But, let us not forget, let us open up our eyes, because there, precisely there, God may have put a garden.
Gerardo Oberman/Argentina
Tr. Roberto Jordan
Under the Mercy,
Dennis A. Smith
dennis.smith@pcusa.org
PCUSA Enlace Regional, Brasil y Cono Sur, Misión Mundial
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