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Good Friday marks the day when Jesus Christ was crucified, and is sometimes called Black Friday. It is the central event of the Christian faith - the one event that Jesus himself asked his followers to remember over all others. It is the day he lost his dignity, his friends, and his life; and the day he was forsaken by the One who mattered most to him - God the Father. I don't believe we can ever fully understand the depths of his suffering - how black that day was for him. Yet he went through it all for us, we are told. Years later, we carry our own crosses and go through our own forms of suffering. However, we can do so with a measure of hope. We have a God who did not exempt himself from the darkness of death but suffered and bled as well - for our sakes. But more than that, he overcame death, and offers us a new life with Him - like a fountain of "living water" he says, that quenches our deepest thirst, and is so fathomless that we shall spend eternity drinking from it. "What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup." - Frederick Buechner
