Meditations on Good Friday...(2)

Maybe it's not as much about respect or somber remembrance. I mean, don't get me wrong---there's probably a due amount there. My pastor has been talking a lot recently about Jesus and Simon Peter. Peter played a starring role in the Good Friday narrative. I suppose that if Jesus was the marquee player, Peter would be the big supporting role--the foil. You see, I'm Peter.

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I just left a career. Lots of reasons, but a big part of it-I just couldn't handle the tension between the two worlds I live in. I worked as a custom cabinet maker for last 11 years or so. And for the most part I loved it. And hope to return to woodworking at some point soon. Just maybe not for the man. I mean, I know all the passages about working for my employer as if he were himself Jesus. But I couldn't seem to find my stride in navigating the treacherous waters that roll back and forth between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of spirits of the age.

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Maybe Good Friday is just as much about treachery. About MY frailty as a follower.

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