To open our Easter service we announced the death of Jesus by highlighting the darkness that covered the land while he cried out "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?" Then we read through cards the Nexus community handed in weeks prior that listed the ways the people of our community feel like they are suffering, in pain, humiliated or dying inside. It was a recognition of the pain, suffering and darkness inside our community. The response to those readings was this song, one that I will never listen to again the same way.
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