Pause for Prayer

You fall the third time.  It’s strange.  After watching Your second fall, I decided to follow You to Calvary.  As you lie face down to the ground, You are motionless.  You could be taken to be dead. 
Suddenly, You make an effort to lift yourself and fall back, and it looks as You might not [...]

We are just an ordinary group of women fetching water the well.  We heard a noise approaching.  It made us wonder what it could be.  We were happily chatting and sharing the latest gossip, just as women will always do when they are together. Some of our number had carried empty pots to the well, aiming [...]

I’d not actually planned to come back along this road when I’d finished my business, but I’m curious.
There’s something different about you.  It seems to me that there is more to your story than the declaration of the Temple authorities that you said you are the King of the Jews.  It doesn’t make sense because [...]

The cloth is on my knees as I sit, staring at it, numb with shock.  I wiped your face and expected bloodstains when I went to wash my towel, but nothing had prepared me to find the imprint of your features.  I don’t know what to think.  This is something I’d never expected, and so [...]

It is not fair.  It is Your cross, not mine.  You are the One who is meant to be going to Calvary – not me.  I was minding my own business when one of the soldiers broke ranks and came over to where I was standing.  I didn’t know what he was saying at first, [...]