"the cross is our obedience to the price of truth and love-with no assurance that it is going to 'work.' As in the life of Jesus, the cross leads us to perfect faith. Love led to its logical conclusion demands that we trust in a goodness and a life beyond our own. The doctrine of the cross says that no life can last forever, but there is a price to the breaking down of the lie." (R. Rohr "Radical Grace" p. 144)
Today is Good Friday. The day that the church remembers the death of Jesus on the cross. Killed by the religious and secular powers of his day. Killed for being a threat to the status quo. Yet that threat was never one of violence, but one of love for the people within those structures and for those shut out by those same structures.
That kind of sacrifice is not the norm in our country. There is little dying for one's faith, but sometimes killing for one's faith has been witnessed here.
The cross for me continues to be a sign of change, perhaps that's why they call it a cross road. Almost every day could be a good Friday, where we are given an opportunity to let go of the way we live that is in fact killing us and allow a new vision and direction to emerge.
Good Friday also is a reminder that when the world thinks its taken care of an inconvenience, God has the final word.
Blessings,
Ed
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