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Oh, day of awful darkness \nwhen I cried unending tears, \nthe very thing I dreaded most\nnow haunted all my fears.\n.\nWhere could my lovely child be,\nmy Savior and my Son?\nWho sought to wrench His life away; \nwhat foul thing had He done?\n.\nWith Peter, James, and brother John, \nI hid myself away;\nas all around a cosmic roar\ndefined the wretched day.\n.\nI did not know where He had gone;\nmy world was torn apart.\nPerhaps I\u2019ll only have Him now\nin the cradle of my heart. Susan Sundwall\n.\n Today\u2019s poem is how one author imagines what it may have been like for\nMary, the mother of Jesus, when He was put to death on the cross. We don\u2019t\nknow if Mary knew that Jesus would rise from the dead, but we do know that\nMary had been with Jesus from the beginning of His life on earth. The angel\nGabriel told Mary that she would be pregnant through the Holy Spirit (even\nthough she was a virgin at the time). When she gave birth to Jesus, she\ncradled Him close to her, yet she knew that He was the Messiah: the Savior\nwho God had promised. What do you think was going through Mary\u2019s mind\nduring the days after Jesus died, before He rose from the grave? \n.\n In times when we don\u2019t understand what God is doing, how could it be\ncomforting to know that Jesus\u2019s followers also felt this way? \n.\nJesus told them, The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of\nhis enemies. He will be killed, but on the third day he will be raised from\nthe dead. And the disciples were filled with grief. Matthew 17:22-23 (NLT)\n\xa0\nRead Verses:\nLuke 2:8-Luke 2:19; Mark 15:12-Mark 15:14; John 19:25-John 19:30; Matthew 17:22-Matthew 17:23