A Jewish father mourns his daughter, killed in a suicide bombing, and is helped by someone close by who comforts him. A man called Simon, in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus crucifixion, was seized and made to carry the cross to the place of execution for the weakened and exhausted Jesus. Simon, although unintentionally, gave his strength to help Jesus at one of his most vulnerable moments.
And yet they come to comfort,
they come with a story,
they enter the darkest room seeking
the point of light that is always there
real or imagined or.
And the words are bread
and the words are water
and