Define "Good" Friday

We all know that the good part of Good Friday is also the sad part. What puts the good in Good Friday, is that Sunday is coming!

Please pray for Maxim that his Easter Sunday is coming. Pray that his time of redemption from pain, loneliness and sorrow is near. Not that I think we could ever call any time spent in an orphanage - not getting the attention and care that you need - good, but I do know that God is in the business of writing good stories and if this part of Maxim's life plays a part in leading him to his forever family, to putting him in a seat of honor among brothers and sisters, to making him a light of the love of Christ in his community, home and among his friends, to creating a miraculous story that will increase the faith and hope of many, then perhaps we could look back together - not as a means to justify the suffering - but to say that his suffering had a place. To say that God took something awful and made it good - that God replaced death with life.

Amen.