Holy Week - Good Friday - Rev. Chad E. JarnaginGood Friday may seem counterintuitive since the day is a solemn one, observed with our fasting and somber reflections. Why is Good Friday called Good Friday? Good used to mean holy. Today, is Holy Friday.His brutal death was contextually unbearable... on many levels, but mainly because, at the beginning of human creation we were not created for death. This may be why death is so traumatic, harsh, confusing, & unbearable at times.Suffering is a focal point which reveals the dimensions of where our humanity still attempts to reject this decay... until we are eventually overcome with it. His love blood flowed mingled down from the cross that day - Seeing death in a new way, his followers scattered and fled.The meanings of today shouldn't be pragmatically reduced... it is not simply about us trying to "get right with God." It is about us entering the difference between God and humanity... and touching it for a moment. - It’s like touching the shimmering sadness of humanity's insistence that we can be our own gods, that we can be pure and all- powerful.” -Nadia Bolz-WeberGood Friday is a bloody blend of faint echoing Hosannas (a plea to be saved), suffering and pain... yet, we wait in the tension... it is finished.

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