It's (non-Orthodox) Easter this Sunday, and Ravi Zacharias'
short essay on the cross and what it represents is worth a few minutes of your time.
There is...(a)...word we often hear when we are in the throes of
indescribable pain, the word, “excruciating.” That, too, derives from
the Latin and means “out of the cross.” Across time and human
experience, the historical event of the Cross intersects time and space
and speaks to the deepest hurts of the human heart.
But we live with more than pain and suffering. We also live with deep
hungers within the human heart, such as the hunger for truth, for
justice, forgiveness, and peace. As I see it, there is only one place in
the world where these hungers converge: it is in the Cross of Christ,
where perfect peace and perfect justice became united in one death on a
Friday afternoon.
