NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller’s son Ryan reached towards his father’s casket during the funeral on March 30, 2024.
More gut wrenching than the iconic photo of John-John Kennedy saluting JFK's casket.
Posted on 03/30/2024 9:16:10 AM PDT by lightman
“It’s really dark without him,” Stephanie Diller tearfully tells me, as she tenderly speaks of her husband, NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller, killed in the line of duty Monday.
I think of that Friday strangely termed “good” on that hill called Calvary. Although mid-day, the Gospel tells us, “There was darkness over all the earth.” Such sadness so gripped the world that it trembled with spasms of grief as earthquakes erupted.
Here was a man of love, goodness, mercy, and truth viciously slain, on that cross, dying for us. This was the teacher who observed, “Greater love than this no one has, than to give his life for another.”
Jesus dying on the cross on Good Friday, with his sobbing mother underneath, with the young “beloved disciple,” John, there with her.
Officer Jonathan Diller dying, with his wife and little boy, Ryan, mourning him...
How much can we take! Well, experience, history, our very make-up tells us we can take a lot, if we believe this darkness will dissipate, if we are convinced that this evil, hate and suffering does not have the last word...
When we hear of grief, when we curse the darkness, we often exclaim, “Dear God! How long is this going to go on?” We spontaneously turn to the Lord. Even Jesus on the cross uttered, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
It’s as if we realize that a broken, fractured, wounded world is beyond our fixing. We need saving! We need God!
How long will the darkness last?...
Those powers who were giggling and tap dancing Good Friday afternoon – sin, Satan, evil, hate, death – are on the run! Jesus is risen!
And He shares His triumph with who us who believe! God has the last word, the last laugh.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Cross is the Devil’s mousetrap.
Very sorry for her loss. This should not have happened.
NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller’s son Ryan reached towards his father’s casket during the funeral on March 30, 2024.
More gut wrenching than the iconic photo of John-John Kennedy saluting JFK's casket.
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