Good Friday

Psalm 22   •   Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12   •   Hebrews 10:16-25   •   John 18:1 – 19:42

Good Fridays

Ukraine barricades, smoldering, stinking, flaming

            Men in green helmets, old uniforms

            Snipers in black, kill with a snap

            The dead dragged bleeding

Drones over Pakistan

            Men with a mouse, kill with a click

Drug cartels, gangs, Border wars

            Crips, Bloods, shivs, guns

Bitcoins collapse, who even knew what they are?

            Greed with a click

Olympic Bitcoin gold

            Putin’s happy Olympics

The homeless man asleep on the doorstep

            He survives the night, layers of clothes stinking

Good Friday surrounds, abounds

The Cross officially unceasing

“Why were you searching for me? Did you not know I must be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he said to them. Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother treasured all these things in her heart.

— The Rev. Jim Richardson