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Please Take This Cup Away from Me
Watercolor, ink on paper
By John Barron
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"To me, this moment epitomizes the human side of Jesus. He is in absolute spiritual and emotional torment, alone and afraid. He is truly a man of deep sorrows. Knowing what lies ahead and terrified, he cries out to his Father to let this thing pass away from him. Yet, in this, his moment of utter weakness and despair, Jesus' love for his Father overcomes his own despondency, and he freely chooses, "Nevertheless, thy will be done." I always imagine God the Father at this point reaching out through tears of love, embracing, holding, caressing, and strengthening his only begotten Son."
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