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Happy Good Friday !

     Happy isn't quite the word that I would choose to call today, as it is the death of our loving Savior Jesus Christ, but it is good in that he died for our sins today. I often think of the physical agony he endured but  the emotional agony was huge as well. I often think about the night he was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane and that agony he endured in knowing all that he knew would come to pass.   38   Then He said to them,  l  "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me."   39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and  m  prayed, saying,  n  "O My Father, if it is possible,  o  let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless,  p not as I will, but as You will."   Matt 26:38-39 This agony proves to me that not only was he one with the father but he was human as well, the God-man was saying I really don't want to do this, do I have to? I think about us today and how we say that often and often more than not, we j