‘Mother Behold Your Son’ by URC-poet minister Lucy Berry

As the lonely single mother of an only son I thought a lot about Mary in the early days of my motherhood. Christ’s last words from the cross, according to John 19:26, consign Mary to the care of the disciple whom he loved. In the midst of appalling pain, he is human and humane, ordinary and extraordinary. He is putting things in order in his family – and in the world.

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