The news today called this the most important day of the year for Christians. I'm not sure about that. Despite its significance, I'm sure that commercially, retailers would say that Christmas is the most important day and theologically I think it is still Easter.
It was probably the busiest Good Friday I've spent in twenty years of ordained ministry. I got up and went to work about the same time I usually do. Then I spent some time changing the arrangement of the chairs for Good Friday worship so that it was a bit more compact. We are hoping to webcast the worship service on Sunday so that family members who can't be here on Sunday when Tekerra is baptised can join via the web. So, I spent some time assisting the fellow we've invited to help us with that.
After the Good Friday worship service I went quickly home for lunch and then I was back at the office for baptism preparation with Steve and Coral and their friends Adam and Nicole whom Steve and Coral have invited to be Tekerra's godparents. We were also joined by Marg and Lloyd as representatives of the YKUC congregation.
After the baptism preparation I spent an hour working on some of the technical details of the webcast with moderate success and then got ready for a rehearsal with the YKUC Players - a small group of children who've been working on a couple of dramatic presentations thar will be part of Easter morning worship. The rehearsal went reasonably well and left me feeling pretty good about something that has been a bit of a worry for me over the past couple of weeks.
Then it was time to return home for Easter Dinner with all of our Calgary and Edmonton guests, plus a couple of others as well. It was a busy, happy time together at table.
I mused the other night that it was going to be a challenge to fit this blog into the schedule. I was right. I have one more entry to go to have fulfilled my commitment to make it a Lenten discipline. I expect to make it.
Was it a Good Good Friday? Yes - busy, very busy - but good.
Yellowknife
April 2, 2010
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