"Then Jesus cries out
It is a cry of freedom. A cry of hope. A cry of handing over.
It is a cry of giving back. Giving back all his work, his dreams, his love, his life, breath, spirit.
It is a cry of pain and agony. It is a cry of resistance to evil.
It is a cry against violence and death.
It is a cry that rends the curtain of the temple in two, and tears the light out of the day and throws him clear of hate.
It is a cry that throws him into the arms of Mercy.
It is his death cry and it is the beginning of the resurrection.
That cry tears loose anything that holds back God or the kingdom of God from coming among us.
It is a cry for the poor, for those who struggle for justice and for those who hang on for dear life, for those who hunger and thirst for God's reign now, in history.
It is a cry for an alternative to injustice, to despair and inhumanity.
A cry that creates a new world like the original one was intended.
It is a cry of judgment and nothing will ever be the same again.
It is the cry of all human beings caught in death, caught in a world turning on itself and eating each other alive,
It is a cry layered and fraught with meaning.
It is a cry of prayer to God for justice, for security, for defense and for faithfulness that will not be undone by others' hate and persecution.
It is a cry of anguish for all that was lost, for all that life that was torn to shreds, all that life denied to others, all that hope cast away.
All that life that was buried under greed.
All that life that was never allowed to blossom, to grow, to thrive and generate new life.
It is the Cry of Mercy being poured out
and Mercy being caught up into the arms of the Father.
It is the Cry of God when we don't see Him."