Horrid Nails
BY JOE SIXPACK In the days of the Dutch masters of art, there was a noted painter who had wasted his youth in wickedness and depravity. Coming to his senses later in life, he bitterly regretted his sins and resolved to make up for them. One of the painter’s best-known works depicted the thirteenth Station of the Cross: The Taking Down of Our Lord From the Cross. Prominent in the painting was the man who pulled the nails from our Savior’s sacred flesh. The person painted into that role was the painter himself. When asked why he used himself as the model for that man, with considerable feeling he replied: “God knows I’ve driven innumerable cruel nails into my Lord,…Continue Reading