[ I wrote an uplift for Good Friday last year and I really like it and thought it said all the things I believe are important about this day so I’m sending it again... ]

"Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed." (Isaiah 53:4-5)