No Greater Love

Good Friday is an ordinary day for many throughout the world, but an extraordinary day for Christians everywhere. Catholic exchange has a wonderful article called Extreme Love on the Cross. The poem at the end of the article is most haunting:

There He hangs--pale figure

pinned against the wood.

God grant that I could love Him

as I really know I should.

I draw a littler closer to share the love divine

and almost hear Him whisper,

"Oh foolish child of Mine!

If I should now embrace you

My hands would stain you red

And if I leaned to whisper,

the Thorns would pierce your head."

Then I knew in silence

that love demands a price

'Twas then I learned that suffering

is but the kiss of Christ.

-Poem to Christ Crucified by Caryll Houselander

Whether our suffering includes infertility, mourning the loss of a child, disease, pain, and heartbreak, today is a perfect day to unite our pain to that of Jesus' on the cross and look forward to His resurrection.