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‘I have to accept the mystery of it all.’

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‘I have to accept the mystery of it all.’

by Anne M Jones 19th April 2024

For most of my life, I have felt repulsed by street-corner preachers screaming ‘Jesus died for you’. And, as a former child protection officer, I could never quite fathom how a father would sacrifice his son. I still cannot square these notions, but I have to accept the mystery of it all, perhaps an allegory for suffering in all its myriad forms.