{"id":144398,"date":"2026-04-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144398"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:38:17","slug":"god-knows-our-dying-from-the-inside-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144398","title":{"rendered":"God knows our Dying From the Inside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jesus dies. His lifeless body is taken down from the cross. Painters and sculptors have strained their every nerve to portray the sorrow of Mary holding her lifeless son in her arms, as mothers today in Baghdad hold with the same anguish the bodies of their children. On Holy Saturday, or Easter Eve, God is dead, entering into the nothingness of human dying. The source of all being, the One who framed the vastness and the microscopic patterning of the Universe, the delicacy of petals and the scent of thyme, the musician\u2019s melodies and the lover\u2019s heart, is one with us in our mortality. In Jesus, God knows our dying from the inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013The Rt. Rev. Dr. Geoffrey Rowell<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Holy Saturday<br><br>&quot;It is easy to be faithful to God when everything goes smoothly, when His cause triumphs; but to be equally faithful in the hour of darkness, when, for a time, He permits evil to get the upper hand &#8211; this is hard, but it is the most authentic proof of real love.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kDRR6vflDj\">pic.twitter.com\/kDRR6vflDj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Memento Mori (@TempusFugit4016) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TempusFugit4016\/status\/1913429923076644931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus dies. His lifeless body is taken down from the cross. Painters and sculptors have strained their every nerve to portray the sorrow of Mary holding her lifeless son in her arms, as mothers today in Baghdad hold with the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144398\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,438,570,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-holy-week","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144400,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144398\/revisions\/144400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}