There is Absolutely Nothing Good About –
“Good Friday”! Cause WE Missed the Point!!
“Father Forgive Them, For They Know Not What They Do”! Has nothing changed? Will we ever learn?
Jesus was arrested, put on trial, and sentenced to death by crucifixion.
-He was beaten, mocked, and made to carry His cross to a hill called Golgotha.
There, He was nailed to the cross and died.
His last words were full of love, forgiveness, and trust in God.
How do we as “Christians” even formulate our mouths to identify this day as a “Good” Day?
He went to pray and engage with His Heavenly Father to consult with Him on what to do in the Garden of Gethsemane. I can’t imagine the content of that discussion as a mother, because I would not want to sacrifice my child knowing the conditions of humanity then and seeing today that not much has changed.
Jesus sacrificed His life hoping that our humanity would become what our Creator had imagined, then envisioned, designed, crafted and then breathed life into. Jesus was on a mission for “Great Spirit”! He did not intend to have His work institutionalized and distorted from the “Truth of what He taught and lived. He came with a message of DEI+! He was in His own identity a being that represented diversity! He sought to bring awareness for the need to have equity amongst all of us.
Jesus could not have been more open and accessible to including anyone that sought His love and compassion, to be part of His life’s journey. I know that Jesus is with us in the “Spirit”, but if He were here in the “Flesh”, which I have seriously advised Him to stay on the Heavenly realm, till we get our act together because “once was definitely enough of a sacrifice, He would have been all in the mix of fighting for Justice and showing us how to live a life of compassion and love. Jesus was a “Holy Spirit” of unconditional Radical Love”, and He in His human form probably had moments in that garden that He could have simply said “forget it, this battle for the sanctity of your souls and the souls of humanity, are on you”.
He could have simply saved Himself from the agony of death and been self-consumed and indifferent to the woes of the world. Instead, He allowed Himself to be used as a symbol of Faith, Love, and Hope for the redemption of all mankind. He made the supreme sacrifice and what real gratitude have we given to demonstrate that we get His messaged, that we are intentionally trying to live by His principles and values, and that we are everyday trying to walk in the light of not Christianity as a systematic institutional system, but as authentic followers of “Christ” holding the “Christ Spirit” as our guiding post to walk this world and impact this world as He did and as He would today.
He was betrayed by someone He thought loved Him and understood His purpose on earth. He was hung on the cross and engaged with the two thieves that hung on either side of Him. He did not shame them or pass judgement on them because He knew the content of their broken souls. They communed with Him on that day, hanging on those crosses on that hill known as “Golgotha” which represented the place of death-executions. Even as they were hanging on that cross, one on either side of Jesus, the conversation could have started out as a battle for their souls. Interestingly enough Jesus was not battling He gave them the space to “come back to themselves and then in a most grace filled way He told them-“Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise”. Do we offer each other that same kind of love and grace?
This day- this “Good Friday” I see as the “Day of Redemption and Accountability”. I see it as a “Day of Gratitude” that a “Holy man of humble means” over 2, 000 years ago loved us, all of humanity, representing every ethnicity, walk of life, and condition of life, with a love so expansive and unconditional, that He laid down His life to set you and me free. I walk in that light! will you choose to walk in that light? It is a choice!
Ashé! Ameen! Amen!
Thank You Jim Brickman for your beautiful music that vibrates through this recording. This is a selection from his album – “Music to Quiet Your Mind and Sooth Your World”.
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