Dear All of Us,
It was Good Friday.
Mickey caught me
out front of church.
Mickey was a dear, deep,
lovable little boy of seven.
He was also a hurting little boy.
His Mom had died from cancer
a few months prior.
Mickey was
Soul Sick and Tired
of pain, hurt and death.
"Father, why do they call this
Good Friday?
They killed Jesus."
Mickey and I had a
heart hug and huddle
right then and there.
That was Good that Friday!
There's more than
a little of Mickey in us all:
WHY
pain, suffering, death?
What's so good about
all the varied
Good Fridays in life,
that of Jesus, ours
those of all creation?
Good Friday
was good because
that's how Jesus brought
Reality
God Love
to the very guts of
where it wasn't -
Empire
Evil
He entered the
realm of evil
from its portal
right where he was
- his suffering and crucifixion.
We do it one in Jesus
from right where and how we are -
betrayal, abuse, conflict,
physical/psychic suffering...
No matter the portal,
they all open to
the vast vacuum
of no good, no God,
no Love, no Reality,
of sin, evil, pain -
all absences of good.
Lots of names for
what's missing.
They present,
and we take them,
as something
when in fact
they are an absence.
Consider.
Someone gets punched
in the nose.
The root evil there is
the absence of the
good use of energy
(forcing the fist in in face)
and an absence of
right good order
in how our nose
is supposed to be
(not pained and bleeding).
Most of all the absence of
love, aka God, in the puncher.
Like all vacuums,
evil sucks us
into nothingness
and that hurts like hell
because that's
just what it is - hell -
the absence of the real,
of good, of love, of God.
In one form or other or many -
they lack the
Realness
that
"IS"
that is
God Good
Jesus brought
that Realness,
The Love That is God,
where it wasn't,
suffered the hurt
of that absence
and kept on going through it
and beyond it - rising up from it.
That blossomed into atonement.
Atonement isn't taking a hit
to pay off a ticked off god.
Atonement is
getting us through the pain
and nothingness of evil
to oneness,
"at-one-ment"
with
the real and good,
that is God.
The trouble with trouble
isn't what it is.
The trouble with trouble
is what it isn't,
GOOD
Jesus embraced all
that's missing in us,
all our sin and pain.
He suffered through it
in his Realness,
his Goodness,
the Goodness that is God.
He fulfilled what was missing.
He was in solidarity with all suffering
and brings us to solidarity with all good.
What's good about
GOOD Friday
is that it we
don't stay there.
What's good about
GOOD Friday
is that it opens to
Easter Sunday
down
is
UPPED
"Christ is risen"
and we will too!
Alleluia Alleluia
Allelulia
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May we and our world rise up in
Easter joy.
And, oh yes.
Enjoy the jelly beans,
especially the orange ones.
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