God's Friday

He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;

and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account.

Surely he has borne our infirmities
and carried our diseases;

yet we accounted him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:3-4

It's called Good Friday as a variation on God's Friday. But it is hard to understand God's willingness to die in such an ignominious way. And we have been more than willing to look away, to pretend this didn't have anything to do with us.

If only we would look and see beyond the suffering to the love and generosity on the cross. Then it would be a truly Good Friday.