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An improvisation for your request, Molly:
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*They're pounding the nails through his hands into the cross, and Jesus just looks at them with love. He just loves them, and the pain turns to bliss. That love removes the remaining doubt, but not just yet --not before he voices it.
*After they hoist the cross with Jesus nailed to it up and he hangs there for a while, the bliss recedes and the suffering returns. "Father, why have you forsaken me?" he cries.
*And then, it drops away. The true Last Judgment comes and goes. No more doubt. One moment, he's hanging there, suffering, and the next, it's over. He truly realizes his own statements: "Judge not!" "I and my Father are one."
*He just smiles, and knows, without a shadow of a doubt, his True Identity. There is no difference between suffering and peace. There is no Father and me. There is only what is. No judgment. Only peace. And I am That.
*Was it Jesus' love for the so-called others that was the final piece to his liberation, that tipped the balance? His love for what is, accepting the so-called pain? He just loves them, and the suffering turns, to reveal itself as peace. "The peace that passeth all understanding", all conceptualization.
*If we just love that pain in our mind or our body, because it's simply what is, it might just reveal itself to be peace.
*Love and wisdom are like the two wings of a bird. A one-winged bird just flies around in circles.
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