This week is Holy Week for Christians around the world.  It began yesterday on Palm Sunday and will conclude on Easter, or Resurrection Sunday, this weekend.  In her poem Good Friday, which is the day on which Jesus was crucified, Christina Rosetti writes:

Am I a stone, and not a sheep,
That I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy cross,
To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss,
And yet not weep?

Not so those women loved
Who with exceeding grief lamented Thee;
Not so fallen Peter, weeping bitterly;
Not so the thief was moved;

Not so the Sun and Moon
Which hid their faces in a starless sky,
A horror of great darkness at broad noon –
I, only I.

Yet give not o’er,
But seek Thy sheep, true Shepherd of the flock;
Greater than Moses, turn and look once more
And smite a rock.

It is one thing to know the story of Jesus’ crucifixion; it is quite another thing for it to affect our soul.  Rosetti’s poem is a prayer, that she would be changed by her knowledge of Good Friday, just like Mary and Peter and the thief on the cross were moved by it.  For all the studying and knowing and teaching and learning we do here at school, never forget that head knowledge can only do so much for us—it takes God to smite a rock.

Have a wonderful day.