Good Friday

Any God who would wander into the human condition, any God who has this thirst to pursue us, had better not be too put off by pain, for that's the way we tend to treat our saviors. Any God who tries to love us had better be ready to die for it.

                                                                                      William Willimon

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Sometimes it seems

as if hate is going to win

as if all that right

all that is good

is coming to an end

as on that Friday so long ago

when in the heat of the afternoon

jeers echoed

lashes fell

thorns pierced

and hammer blows reverberated,

and love took its last breath

or did it?

perhaps love is made of tougher stuff than that

perhaps

just perhaps

on that day

God looked in the face of hatred

and brutality

into the face or judgement and rejection

into the face of power and wealth

and said

“This Stops Here”

and that is why we call it

Good