One of my favorite authors - Anne Lamott - reflecting on Good Friday in an NPR story:
"Well, it's the most profound holiday in the Christian tradition,"
Lamott says. "And I think two things really come to mind. One is
something that the great writer Barbara Johnson said, which is that we
are Easter people living in a Good Friday world. And I think that every
year the world seems more of a Good Friday world. And it's excruciating,
whether it's Japan, or Libya, or whether its your own best friends and
their children who are sick, which is something that makes no sense when
you think about a loving God. But it's a time when we get to remember
that all the stuff that we think makes us of such value, all the time we
spend burnishing our surfaces, is really not what God sees. God, he or
she, loves us absolutely unconditionally, as is. It's a come as you are
party."
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