Were You In That Crowd?

Simon of Cyrene is walking toward Jerusalem when the roar starts. A Man has fallen in the street under a beam too heavy for a body already broken. The crowd is loud. The look in the Man’s eyes is not. Brian Hahn sits with that road and tells the truth the hill still asks. This is a narration he first delivered about twenty years ago, shaped by Peter Marshall’s old question — were you there? On this episode the answer is not abstract. We were in that crowd. The merchants. The mothers. The fathers. The ones who wanted a different kind of king. The ones who thought they were only passing through. And the Man on the stones still looks at us with love. This is not a debate and it is not a rally. A Soft Place to Land is a faith-based conversation that is encouraging and unhurried — a safe space from political anger. You do not have to audition. You do not have to decorate your confession. You do not have to earn the look. You can receive it. One sentence to carry out of the room: I was in that crowd. I am still looked at with love. If you have no safe person to say that to yet, this show can hold the first half of it. Say it in the car. Write it on a card. Let it sit. Then receive the second sentence. The written message behind this conversation lives at jaxsonharlan.com, under the title “Were You in That Crowd?” Come back next time. We will keep the light on. Hosted by Brian Hahn. From Jaxson Harlan Ministry / Jaxson Radio. May you go from here unhurried. May you remember you are held.