I’m still emotionally caught up in the Theresa Schiavo situation, now more likely than not, a death watch, and ended up with my post today being once again, political. So I’m checking in with several of the bloggers that I read regularly to see what they are writing on this Good Friday in hopes of rebooting my mindset and getting more spiritually ready for Easter Sunday.

Doug TenNapel manages to shed some bright light on the meaning of Terri’s impending death.

Death is in the air, and it’s a good thing. I’m not trying to be ironic here, I’m stating an absolute truth, we call this Good Friday for a reason.

Hold tight if you’ve been conditioned to hate the Bible. This won’t hurt, and if they’re just words of a bunch of delusional ancients, then we’ll just read them for their literary value. Okay?

I’m enjoying Doug’s writings more and more, and it has “nothing” to do with his linking to some of mine. Having lived most of my life executing “visual” means of expression, the more I blog, the more I discover that I really should have paid more attention in those creative writing courses 30 years ago, or at least hit some of the journalism classes!

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Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette reflects on Good Friday after hearing the church bells ringing in the German town where he is stationed.

That sound was bells. Church bells in the town below, Catholic and Protestant, noting the death of a Jew. One of the few such ever mourned here in Europe, even if mourned only by a few. But although today is a German holiday I doubt many will spend it in church, and even fewer will find time to contemplate theology or the grander things in life, or the wonder of it all. But this morning how those bells did ring, filling the air with sound as I walked the second of the big unruly dogs through the otherwise quiet isolation of the forest. The bells tolled as they had for hundreds of years, since long before the dawn of the age of reason, marking a moment in history two thousand years before.

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Bill Rice over at Dawn’s Early Light takes a look at the U2 song, “Until the End of the World” from the Achtung Baby album and shows how it is not just a simple love song for the ’90s, but actually is Bono “singing as if he was Judas speaking to Jesus, whom he betrayed.” Like my wife keeps telling me, “Dale, you’ve gotta start listening to lyrics!”

For me, it is good to be reminded that I have more in common with Judas than I like to admit. I, like all Christians, fall short of God’s will in my life and in effect, betray Jesus. Unlike Judas, I wish to be closer to God’s will and accept the free gift from the one with “those innocent eyes”.

My debate buddy from this AM, Brad Hightower who blogs at 21st Century Reformation discusses The Ethic of Good Friday by answering the following three questions,

Who did Jesus love? How did Jesus express this love for the un-godly? & How does this love apply to me?

And finally, Blogotional’s John Schroeder provides the apostle Matthew’s account of the Crucifixion, just to remind all of us what was sacrificed so that we may be saved.

Easter is coming in less than three days. I need to settle down, relax my mind, find my own voice and express my love for the Lord and the salvation that he provides. (db)

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