Crucify

When they got to the place called Skull Hill, they crucified him, along with the criminals, one on his right, the other on his left. Luke 23:33

What more can be said on Good Friday. Amazing that we call it Good Friday. Calling the day of the Crucifixion ‘Good’ Friday is a designation that is peculiar to the English language. In German, for example, it is called Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word, the ancestor of the English word care in the sense of cares and woes, and it meant mourning. So in German, it is Mourning Friday. And that is what the disciples did on that day—they mourned. They thought all was lost.
I’ve read that the word good used to have a secondary meaning of holy. There are a number of cases in set phrases where the words God and good got switched around because of their similarity. One case was the phrase God be with you, which today is just good-bye. So perhaps Good Friday was originally God’s Friday. But I think we call it Good Friday because, in pious retrospect, all that tragedy brought about the greatest good there could be.

Take this day and remember that Christ actually lived out what he taught and he calls us to the same: to crudicy ourselves, our ego, and find our life in God. Meditate on the following verses today:

Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:39

Give away your life; you'll find life given back, but not merely given back—given back with bonus and blessing. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity.

Luke 6:38

Namaste'