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Date: 26 March 2005 00:34:23
We were asked this this morning in a special childrens service. 'We know how it ends' being the answer. We know that on Sunday we will be able to celebrate the rising of our Lord, the renewal of the hope promised. But because of this the reality of Good Friday can get lost, the horror of what happened, the loss experienced at His death, the desolation of those left behind. Because we know it all turns out right in the end. In some ways this can be a bad thing, because we fail to recognise the substance of what happened on that day on Calvary. But, as long as we acknowledge it, this strange hindsight can help to bring it together in a way it wouldn't have done for the disciples that Friday. We know how it happened, but also why. And we know that He knew too. Pray that we could be so willing to consent to His will.
Take this cup away from me?
Yet not my will, but yours.
Amen.