Lord,
We cannot share your light
Without your darkness.
We cannot share your peace
Without your pain.
We cannot share your hope
Without your sorrow.
We cannot share your way
Without your shame.
We cannot share your truth
Without your weeping.
We cannot share your faith
Without your loss.
We cannot share your joy
Without your anguish.
We cannot share your love
Without your cross.
References
I am the light of the world (John 8:12; NLT).
At noon, darkness fell across the whole land until three o’clock (Matthew 27:45; NLT).
Peace I leave you; my peace I give you (John 14:27; NIV).
Then the soldiers nailed him to the cross (Mark 15:24; NLT).
His name will be the hope of all the world (Matthew 12:21; NLT).
He began to be sorrowful and troubled (Matthew 26:37; NLT).
I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6; NLT).
He endured the cross, disregarding its shame (Hebrews 12:2; NLT).
Then Jesus wept (John 11:35; NLT).
Father, into your hands I commit my spirit (Luke 23:46; NIV).
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mark 15:34; NLT).
Jesus was filled with the joy of the Holy Spirit (Luke 10:21; NLT).
He was in such agony of spirit that his sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood (Luke 22:44; NLT).
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:13; NIV).
Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me (Luke 9:23; NIV).