TGIGF... "Thank God, it's Good Friday"

Today is Good Friday.      

     As a young child, I remember finding it difficult to understand why that awful day of Jesus' death was called good.

     Having it explained to me, and as my innocent mind gradually matured, I came to understand just what was so good about it. For without Good Friday, we could not have the joyous celebration of Easter Sunday.
     Today I found myself pondering it all once again, not wanting to revisit in my mind those horrible events surrounding my Savior's death. 

"It was a morning that changed everything." 

     I knew too well the deep, intense emotions those thoughts would evoke within me. I just wanted to move on in my thinking — past Jesus' pain and suffering — to the hopeful story of that beautiful resurrection morning so long ago. 

     
     It was a morning that changed everything.  But, realizing it all began at the cross, I knew it was necessary for me to meet Him there again — today, with an overflowing heart of gratitude. 
     It was there that He broke the power of death and sin, and brought me eternal life.
     Quoting from the beloved, classic hymn of my childhood; "So I'll cherish the old rugged cross, 'til my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross, and exchange it some day for a crown."

—  beulah