GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD," John writes, "that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." That is to say that God so loved the world that he gave his only son even to this obscene horror; so loved the world that in some ultimately indescribable way and at some ultimately immeasurable cost he gave the world himself. Out of this terrible death, John says, came eternal life not just in the sense of resurrection to life after death but in the sense of life so precious even this side of death that to live it is to stand with one foot already in eternity. To participate in the sacrificial life and death of Jesus Christ is to live already in his kingdom. This is the essence of the Christian message, the heart of the Good News, and it is why the cross has become the chief Christian symbol. A cross of all things—a guillotine, a gallows—but the cross at the same time as the crossroads of eternity and time, as the place where such a mighty heart was broken that the healing power of God himself could flow through it into a sick and broken world. It was for this reason that of all the possible words they could have used to describe the day of his death, the word they settled on was "good." Good Friday.
-Originally published in 'The Faces of Jesus' by Frederick Buechner
This was taken Friday evening, Good Friday, at sunset. As soon as I saw it on the big screen, I saw the people. The wooden people. The people made out of the same material the cross was made out of. They were standing there Friday night, watching the sunset, the end of the day, the end of the life of their Christ, their savior, the end of their hopes and their dreams and their faith ... what was next for them? What was to become of all they thought they believed about what Jesus had taught them and told them? Was this real? Where do you go now? What do you do next ...
Hi, Ashley. For your Get Pushed challenge, I went to www.quotationspage.com to their random quotes and picked the bottom quote. "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law. I challenge you to find either something unusual that most people would overlook if they weren't observant or take a street shot of people watchers. Have fun!
Hi! I am your get pushed partner this coming week. I see you haven't been on since March 25. Are you still wanting to do it? If so, your challenge this week is to find artistic shadows.
