Night Cries (2015)

Jacob Blair: D'Kesh

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• D'Kesh : He took with him Peter, James, and John and began to be distressed and agitated and he said to them I am deeply grieved even to death, remain here, and keep awake. He came to find them sleeping. "Simon, are you asleep?", He said, "Keep Awake, and pray you may not come into the time of trial. The spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak." The Gospel of the Lord.

• D'Kesh : In the shadows of the Garden we find a place of unfulfilled dreams, of broken promises, faced with what He knows will be a horrific death. Jesus asks of his apostles the simplest of all tasks: to simply stay awake. Not to help him fight, not to help him escape, but to simply stay awake and keep him company in his last moments. It is so easy to wage war on behalf of something, on behalf of an ideal, but to simply stand guard and witness an end... sometimes faithfulness fails, sometimes the night's cries are far too soothing to some, that their embrace fades away all commitment and that all the best intentions are lost in a blanket of fear and tiredness. Stay awake. That's all he asks of us. Stay awake, and stand watch.