{"id":8665,"date":"2014-04-18T08:03:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2014-04-18T10:21:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T17:21:56","slug":"a-season-of-superlatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/04\/18\/a-season-of-superlatives\/","title":{"rendered":"A Season of Superlatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TLS-in-situ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A canvas print as used by San Clemente Presbyterian Church in their “Stations of the Cross.”<\/h6>\n

It’s a season full of superlatives. It’s when the best man in history was cut down by the worst act of treachery and suffered the most abjectly degrading death after humanity’s most scandalous trial. It happened on the darkest day and ended with the highest prayer.<\/p>\n

“Father forgive them.”<\/p>\n

Find our language’s most extreme terms, those describing highest grandeur and those most wretched; they all meet together that day.<\/p>\n

It started with a supper, the one since labeled,\u00a0the last<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I depicted it some years ago, taking liberties with Da Vinci’s, and to make another point, replacing the disciples with tribal people. My father, who in his last years carried bookmarks of the image and gave them to everyone, named it\u00a0the next<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Then he’d always say, “If you believe, you’ll be there.”<\/p>\n

Every year for the last several, Anne and I have observed our own tradition of a personal sunrise service on Easter. It’s not necessarily sunrise, but it’s early. While many who don’t normally attend, throng to church that day, we who habitually do, head the other way.<\/p>\n

Casper’s<\/em> is a wilderness park nearby, with high hills and even a sitting bench at the top of one. There we commune, not with nature, but in it.<\/p>\n

Among other things, we commemorate the superlatives. The greatest God came to lowest depths and ascended back again . . . Himself somehow made anew and bringing us along. And, as Dad said, “If you believe, you’ll be there.”<\/p>\n

Superlatives? Words cannot describe.<\/p>\n

The greatest debt now freely paid.
\nThe best offer ever made.<\/p>\n

Happy Easter.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The English language contains more words than any other, yet none high enough or low enough to describe what happened among us . . . and for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8665"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8687,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8665\/revisions\/8687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}