It seems appropriate to consider violence on Good Friday:
Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.
This is a more profound statement than it at first appears....
But suffering, held in a supple heart, can break the heart open to compassion instead of breaking it down into cruelty. When we live with broken-open hearts, our suffering leads us to love life more, not less. Then we can become light-bearers and life-givers in a world of too much darkness and death.
-- Parker Palmer
The miracle of Good Friday is that God was doing something about everything, even when we were still clueless...even hating.
