Then the lookout shouted,
“Day after day, O lord, I stand on the watchtower;
night after night I stay at my post.”
—Isaiah 21:8
Some spiritual disciplines are routine. Some are occasional, and a few are very rare. A few are so sacramental, they are only to be undertaken when the Holy Spirit calls. One of these rare disciplines is to companion someone in the dark…closely, with few words and a rooted conviction that you are at the foot of the cross and must stay there until released. You are there precisely when most have pulled away, when the sounds of choked suffering and the smell of blood is most prevalent.
I have been called to this three times over…
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