At our Good Friday service this evening, each of seven people read the scripture around the seven last words of Jesus and spoke a few words of their own about them. The woman who spoke of "Father forgive them for they know not what they do" told about her own struggles with forgiveness. One line jumped out, that for forgiveness to happen, something has to die. She was speaking not only of Jesus's sacrifice, but that something had to die in us in echo of Jesus's death for resurrection to follow. No death, no resurrection.
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