It is Good Friday, it’s the culmination of Holy Week in that walk to the cross that Christ engaged in. I am here in my garden, a wild corner. It’s rather a grey day and here I am sitting on the little fire pits that we’ve constructed to share with our kids. Gardens, fire pits, they all speak of that story of betrayal that Jesus experienced. Betrayal by friends there in the Garden of Gethsemane when Judas came and indicated that this was the one the Romans needed to arrest. And of course, where Peter that night gathered around a fire pit in the courtyard and denied that he knew Jesus as Frank, each of us know moments betrayal. And perhaps as we walk the way of the cross this week through Holy Week, we have engaged with something of that. And perhaps in repentance for our own mistakes, failings and betrayals. Perhaps in receipt of forgiveness for the ways in which we have known that today, as we mark Good Friday, we remind ourselves that Jesus gave himself for us, that he has forgiven us through his death on the cross, dying as he did amongst those who deserved her when he didn’t.
Today we know something of the grace of God for us. May it be something we receive., thankfulness, gratitude and hearts full of love.
Let’s pray.
Lord, we thank you for your love for us.
We thank you that you gave everything and we pray that you will help us as we seek to become your Easter people.
Those who have recognised that we need your love, your forgiveness and want to work as people who will show others the way to find that for themselves.
Amen.
