Friday [savor]

Matthew 27:1-62, Mark 15:1-47, Luke 22:63-23:56, and John 18:28-19:37

The trial, torture and crucifixion and finally the death of Jesus are referred to as “the final word” of God in some theological perspectives.  The notion points back – or ahead – to our questions of “Why God?”; “How can you God?” … It’s the painting of a picture speaking this final word – that God has been everywhere we can go – high and low, ecstasy and pain, jubilation and utter aloneness.

There is nothing else to say about how God seeks to know, understand and stand in solidarity with us.  The next word of God – in the story of Holy Week – is a new one  – something creative, uncontainable, beyond imagination, life-giving-sustaining-and-transforming: resurrection.

Reflect upon this past year – how have you suffered, been alone, or felt un-whole?  Have you experienced God’s solidarity in that darkness?  Have you longed for it?  Is there anything you can savor from that walk or time in what the psalmist-poet calls “the valley of the shadow of death”?