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# Wounded for Fear
- URL: https://randalljgreene.com/wounded-for-fear/
- Published: 2023-04-09T19:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-16T22:13:48.000Z
- Description: A Good Friday meditation on why Jesus suffered the cross.
- Author: Randall Greene
- Tags: Poetry, Christianity, #Import 2025-01-12 03:41

Those wounds, not for peace, not for hope, but for fear  
because they could not imagine a kingdom  
led not by a king, led not by might, led not by opulence or self-protection,  
but led by love, led by listening and holding and giving one's privilege away.

And that kind of kingdom unimaginable,  
a kingdom that depowers the powerfuls and empowers the ignorables,  
was a threat to be quashed, a movement to be killed, a teacher to be wounded.  
No, those wounds were not for peace, not for hope, not for love;  
those wounds, like all wounds, were for fear.