{"id":120258,"date":"2023-04-14T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120258"},"modified":"2024-04-03T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:28:38","slug":"r-s-thomas-the-answer-for-easter-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=120258","title":{"rendered":"R S Thomas “The Answer” for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

From there<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Not darkness but twilight
\nIn which even the best
\nof minds must make its way
\nnow. And slowly the questions
\noccur, vague but formidable
\nfor all that. We pass our hands
\nover their surface like blind
\nmen feeling for the mechanism
\nthat will swing them aside. They
\nyield, but only to re-form
\nas new problems; and one
\ndoes not even do that
\nbut towers immovable
\nbefore us. <\/p>\n

Is there no way
\nof other thought of answering
\nits challenge? There is an anticipation
\nof it to the point of
\ndying. There have been times
\nwhen, after long on my knees
\nin a cold chancel, a stone has rolled
\nfrom my mind, and I have looked
\nin and seen the old questions lie
\nfolded and in a place
\nby themselves, like the piled
\ngraveclothes of love\u2019s risen body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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God,however, raised him from the dead, and to that fact we are the witnesses; and it is the name of Jesus which,through our faith in it, has brought back the strength of this man whom you see here and who is well known to you. It is faith in that name that has restored this man\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/aDGKfEFLmY<\/a><\/p>\n

— Kalina Boulter (@Kalina_Boulter) April 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n