IT TAKES ONE A LONG TIME TO BECOME YOUNG

Good Friday

Thank you Lord for laying down your life for me. What person among us would lay down his life for his friends - especially enduring Roman Cruzifixation. This, the most barbaric of all means to tortue, kill another.

A man hangs, arms over a cross, nailed or lashed/tied with rope. One small step holds his feet, nailed or lashed. Raised high, there is no support, hour after hour, for the body. No movement can occur. Slowly th chest, the lungs cannot bear upright. They sag, they begin to drop. But the arms/wrists are nailed/lashed. A body cannot support itself bound againt a piece of wood above the ground. Scientists say, the lungs suffocate, the weight of the body being pulled downward causes a slow, very slow, agonizing suffocation, breath becomes tempered, air and breath do not regulate. thirst produces dehydration.

Crucifixtion - Rome's masterful invention, like the water canals and mills.

500-1000 were crucified each day.

Why was it one man was remembered among all of these? ONE HUMAN BEING murdered centuries ago, still remembered. A man whose name has impacted the course of the world since he lived.

Jesus, the Christ - surely this was the Son of God.