But what if we were to take John 13-17 and read it as if it is a guy who knows what he is going to face…and come out the other side..and is talking to guys that he knows don’t-however many times he’s explained it-understand?

I mean, he talks about not being afraid, he talks about what’s going to happen. He finally starts talking to God ABOUT them and about us.

okay. it sounds like i need to do some thinking for tomorrow.

at the time No one knew for sure that he would rise again ( this is all based on what little knowledge i have)
we know it now today
so did he predict what we (now) would understand/feel from his death
or was he focused on his fiend’s understanding/feelings
or both

you both have me thinking. I just have to decide whether to answer here or elsewhere for the moment.

hmm.

It has become more and more strange to hold one day apart from the entire paschal cycle. I say this knowing how important it is to understand each piece of the cycle.

To that, I am left wondering about the place of death in our lives. I mean both literal and figurative death.

In the figurative at least, we sometimes focus on the recognition that an old way life must change, and the letting go to experience the new life. We remain afraid of what is in between, because in between, there is death.

In literal death, we get suspended in the moment and what is on either side, is lost. Alas, there is great power in what was and what is to become.

So, one question that Good Friday may, is that of death’s purpose in our lives and of how do we/might we receive death.

Matthew begins to lead us there. “My God, My God why have you forsaken me?” should bring us to the psalm. Psalm 22, brings us to the moment of death, wrestling all the way, but in the end proclaiming faith loudly and clearly. “for he has done it”.

…just thinking. Thanks for the ?.