“Lean on Our Love”

It is hard to watch Jesus suffer on his cross.  We want to turn away, but he doesn’t.  How does Jesus endure the excruciating struggle to breathe?  The taunts, the mocking?  Yet we hear him praying “Father forgive.”  Yet he sees paradise.  He resists the temptation to come down off of that cross.  But we can offer him to lean on our love as we stay with him.  We can offer him to hold our gaze when the pain is too much.