Good Friday thoughts

My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? As Christ speaks those words, he too is in the wilderness. He speaks them when all is lost. He speaks them when there is nothing even he can hear except for the croak of his own voice and when as far as he can see there is no God to hear him. And in a way his words are a love song, the greatest love song of them all. In a way his words are the words we all of us must speak before we know what it means to love God as we are commanded to love him. My God, my God. Though God is not there for him to see or hear, he calls on him still because he can do no other. Not even the cross, not even death, not even life, can destroy his love for God. Not even God can destroy his love for God because the love he loves God with is God’s love empowering him to love in return with all his heart even when his heart is all but  broken.” — Francis Buechner in Listening to Your Life

Take, eat, this is my body, broken for you, Jesus said. Do this in remembrance of Me.

Let us remember today.