It is hard to imagine the pain that Jesus must have endured being nailed to the cross. As Bishop Walsham How expresses it so well:I sometimes think about the cross,
and shut my eyes and try to see
the cruel nails and crown of thorns,
and Jesus crucified for me.
I like the emphasis on Jesus being crucified, not just for the sins of the world, but for me!
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It is a thing most wonderful - a great hymn by a great bishop who always travelled on the bus so that he met his people! I often used to sing it to the children when they were going to sleep.
As a Yorkshireman, I have a soft spot for this former Bishop of Wakefield! Bishop Howe wrote some other splendid hymns. I'm rather fond of 'O Jesu, thou art standing outside the fast-closed door' - but I suppose his greatest hymn is 'For all the Saints' - though we mustn't sing it until Lent is over!
You will be pleased to learn that I intend to make further use of 'It is a thing most wonderful' in the next station.
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