It's Friday...but Sunday's Comin'!

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I’VE READ THE SEQUEL 

Twice I heard Tony Campolo deliver

his famous and rousing sermon

It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’!

at the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove

He drummed home the point

that everything may look bleak Friday, but…

come Sunday it’s a totally different story

Now, I’m not thinking of just any bleak Friday

I’m thinking about the original Good Friday—

thinking the only reason I can bear

to contemplate that good and terrible day

is because I know

three days later there was

a mind-blowing, miraculous Sunday—

…Resurrection Sunday!

The disciples didn’t have

the advantage I have—

They didn’t understand

life after death

couldn’t comprehend

atonement for sin

just didn’t get it

that their teacher and friend, Jesus

could die upon a cross

for the sins of the world

They didn’t know the future—

They didn’t have the Book

                                             

but, I do have the Book

and I’ve read ahead

a few pages

I know the sequel

to the Good Friday story

the victorious hope-giving

hallelujah happy ending

so I know my sins are forgiven

and that I’m going to live forevermore

Yes, I know what happened next

and that makes all the difference

Maude Carolan Pych