Good Friday

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

Jesus has been there.  Jesus knows

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

My God, My God, why did that test come back positive?

My God, My God, Why can’t I seem to make my life work?

My God, My God, why is my daughter on drugs?

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

My God, My God, why does he hit me?

My God, My God, why can’t I find another job?

My God, My God, why can’t I stop drinking?

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

My God, My God, Why don’t my children call me anymore?

My God, My God, Why am I losing control of my life?

My God, My God, why did she have to die?

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

Jesus has been there.  Jesus knows

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

God - in God’s own self –

knows that in our places of deepest grief and deepest despair,

we get no satisfactory response to our desperate why’s –

there is only the painful silence.

My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me?

But because God – in God’s own self – has been there and knows
We are assured that no matter where we find ourselves
Even at the lowest, darkest, deepest rock bottom,
we are never alone.

Jesus is there with us.
Because Jesus knows.