Good Friday

With this being Good Friday, I was thinking again of the movie, "The Passion of the Christ". Even though it was done two years ago, and it's been a while since I've seen it, the images of Jesus suffering still stay with me. I remember watching the lashes He received and wanting desperately to yell at them to stop. The worst part of that being the realization that the beating was for me. I'm glad the story doesn't end with Jesus on the cross, though. It ends with an empty cross and an empty tomb, because He has risen. I pray that is the message that is proclaimed loud and clear on Sunday.