My husband wrote this song for Good Friday last year...the video above is his band, Twelve Ounce Jar, performing "You Gave it All." It is quite beautiful!
Good Friday...I often marvel at the irony of the name. We term a day "good" in which such great suffering, pain and death occurred on our behalf. Yet, while seemingly inaccurate, good becomes the most appropriate term for this day.
Alexander Schmemann says it this way, "In him death itself has become an act of life, for He has filled it with Himself, with His love and life."
On this day where we remember Christ's death, we remember that death is transformed and overcome in Christ. In Christ's death we have new life...not just eternal life, but a new and transformed life in the present. This is the joy and the good we celebrate on this day.
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