This year Easter comes early. Soon it will be Good Friday. I\u2019ve always wondered why the day Jesus was crucified was called \u201cgood.\u201d In my research I found that some say it used to be called \u201cGod Friday\u201d and became Good Friday just like \u201cGod be with you\u201d became \u201cGood bye.\u201d<\/p>\n
For me, the method of Jesus\u2019 death made his teaching more powerful. Would we have gotten the message that \u201cGod is Love and this is who you are\u201d, if he had lived to a ripe old age or would he have faded away like so many other great teachers \u2013 even some in our own tradition?<\/p>\n
What would our world be like without Christianity? Some might say it would be more peaceful \u2013 some say more chaotic. Is the Jesus story even true? Is it a particular person\u2019s story \u2013 or a conglomeration of many stories? So many questions. Jean Houston wrote: \u201cA myth is something that might have never been but that is always happening. It is the DNA code of the human psyche. It is available for one generation, and again, in a different twist, for another. It has multiple, myriad facets. It drops into a culture like a crystal seed in a supersaturated solution, and then it blooms and blossoms.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The Jesus story is our story. Each of us must come to our own understanding of it. As we review why Easter is celebrated, we must ask ourselves how it affects our lives and decide how we want it to.<\/p>\n For me, I will honor the man\u2019s life and death. I can take comfort in his strength of faith, his absolute knowingness that he and the Father were One. I value his teaching and appreciate these words \u201cAll these things I do, you can do, and even greater.\u201d<\/p>\n It seems that \u201cGood Friday\u201d is like so many of the great spiritual truths. It is a paradox. Like \u201cYou shall find yourself by losing yourself.\u201d Or \u201cLess is more.\u201d These paradoxes are difficult to totally understand, yet sometimes they take hold of us. And when they do, nothing is the same ever again.<\/p>\n AFFIRMATIVE PRAYER<\/p>\n There is That Within me that is my Christ nature. It is Unconditional Love. It is an absolute knowingness. It is of great value to me and my world.<\/p>\n I choose to honor this today and everyday by the way I live my life. I am Love made manifest and Love is the greatest healing agent in the universe. I am the Beloved in whom God is well pleased and I let this Love flow forth from me nurturing and blessing all I come in contact with.<\/p>\n As Love flows from within me, it aligns everything in my life \u2013 my health, my wealth, my relationships and my use of my talents \u2013 with that Divine Christ Pattern.<\/p>\n For this I am eternally grateful. I celebrate my conscious awareness of the Christ. And so It is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year Easter comes early. Soon it will be Good Friday. I\u2019ve always wondered why the day Jesus was crucified was called \u201cgood.\u201d In my research I found that some say it used to be called \u201cGod Friday\u201d and became Good Friday just like \u201cGod be with you\u201d became \u201cGood bye.\u201d For me, the method […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,40,24,22],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-good-friday","tag-metaphysics","tag-science-of-mind","tag-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\n