March 27, 2008 - "Reasons For Good Friday"

I was moved by a little poem by Jane Kenyon and surprised to find it quoted at the end of a washingtonpost.com column by Michael Gerson in which he reviews Timothy Keller’s book, The Reason for God. The column’s title is “Reasons for Good Friday”, and here is the poem—

The God of curved space, the dry

God, is not going to help us, but the Son

whose blood spattered

hem of His mother’s robe.