Murals (2008) by PHANTAST - Graffiti - Cultural Music & Art Association inc. - 98 Milne St. Benleigh
O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you,
how often I have longed to gather your children together,
as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,
but you were not willing (Mat 23:37)
"I sense in that spasm of emotional pain something akin to what a parent feels when a son or daughter goes astray, flaunting freedom, rejecting everything he or she was brought up to believe.
Or the pain of a man or woman who just learned a spouse left - the pain of a jilted lover.
It is a helpless, crushing pain of futility, and it staggers me to realised that the Son of God himself emitted a cry of helplessness in the face of human freedom.
Not ever God, with all His power, can force a human being to love..." (Philip Yancey)