All the Feelings

It is Good Friday. Maggie Jarrell, West End’s Pastor of Children and Families, is preaching. Part of this service is the retelling of the story of the passion from the Gospel of John. Then Maggie reminds us that it a gruesome, sad, and lengthy walk to the cross. And then she explores that grief from our pandemic experiences and other current happenings that make the world feel so heavy now. We feel all the feelings. Although our culture tends to focus on the positives, we know we still have the heaviness. This Good Friday makes us know that Jesus knows our pains and asks us to leave them at the foot of the cross, knowing that we are loved, so very loved.