04.08.2023 | Good (Holy) Friday

It is Good Friday in our journey to Easter.  I was always taken aback by the use of "Good" Friday.  Once I realized the word Good was an Olde English word that meant Holy it made perfect sense.  Just as we would hear a good and holy thing is happening. 

On a Good and Holy Friday we once again are witnesses to the brutality and suffering of the perfect sacrifice.  Yet, through this anguish and suffering we retrieve a symbol of power.  The cross stands as a symbol of the power of forgiveness and love in spite of hate.  The cross stands as a symbol of power.  A symbol of love and forgiveness.  Powerful! 

We need this symbol today more than ever.  In a world that sometimes feels like hatred and anger flow with such force throughout our cities and towns.  We need the power of forgiveness and love.  I often forget that love is power!  I am in awe and wonder at the love and forgiveness offered to me, a simple, ordinary sinful being.  Undeserved, yet I receive this grace-filled gift of forgiveness and love if we only receive it.  It is a Good Friday. Amen.