Good Friday is a solemn day of fasting and abstinence, commemorating the Passion and crucifixion of Jesus. It brings us to the foot of the cross, where suffering and love meet.
Jesus enters the depths of human pain—abandonment, injustice, fear, and loss—so that no place in our lives is untouched by God’s presence.
Around the world, people stand with the suffering, refusing to look away. Good Friday invites us to do the same: to stand with Jesus in the broken places of our own hearts and in the wounds of the world, trusting that love is still at work even when we cannot see it.
Scripture: “It is finished.” (John 19:30)
Question: What place of pain—your own or another’s—is God inviting you to hold with compassion today?
Smitten With Goodness 