hope rises among the towers of the dying

Welcome to downtown Johannesburg. Most of its 400,000 residents live in deteriorating, squalid, disease-infested, and crime-ridden towers.

Among them stands this image of the crucified Christ.

I have to wonder if they notice Him there.

I have to believe that He is their only hope, our only hope...

Hope amidst the suffering.



**photo by "lanolin" callahan