life in general [l.i.g]: Good Friday

once upon a time a boy saw a girl. he asked her to go get lime bars. she said yes. he was a viking and she was dutch. but this didn’t stop them. eventually they fell in love, got married, became the H’s, bought a house in the mountains and had a little dutch-viking hybrid.

then they decided that some sort of modern narritive of life in general [l.i.g], preferably in the digital format, may be in order.

(little dutch-viking hybrids tend to make these things necessary.)

so here is an attempt to capture l.i.g in all it’s wonderful, wild, blessed, busy, changing, challenging gusto.

frequency tbd.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Good Friday

"And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, 'My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.'"

Matthew 26:39

"....But the obedient Son's plea to his loving Father is met with silence. Why?

Listen to this verse for the very first time: For God so loved the world....that he's silent at this moment when his Son appeals for an alternative.

This is what bearing our sin means to him - utter distress of soul as he confronts total abandonment and absolute wrath from his Father on the cross, a distress and an abandonment and a rejection we cannot begin to grasp.

In this, our Savior's darkest hour...do you recognize his love for you?

'Yet not what I will, but what you will'"

- C.J. Mahaney

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"...and the curtain of the temple was torn in two."

Luke 23:45b