A paedophile hides his face with his hand from the world press, communicating a sense of strong denial. We can all face situations when we may be in denial of something or someone. Peter, a core member of Jesus' group, to protect himself from danger, three times denied that he knew his friend.
Denial is so very easy. We do this in the head
all the time. We put on a suit to lie. We turn
things round and inside out and hide and seeking
we become so many other things. And it is
done so easily.
And then we move on to the next bit, to deny
the denial. We put on a hat to hide the lie;
changing games, changing names, changing
what we have already changed.
Look; I can do it with my eyes closed, I don't
even have to think about it. Over and over
until even I don't know quite what
might happen next.
We put up a hand to hide the face to
hide the eyes to deny the lie
that never took place.