God, This Sucks!

Published: April 2, 2007, 7:42 p.m.

b'This meditation on Luke\'s Passion narrative by Clay Nelson focuses on how our memories make up the fiction of who we are and what our purpose is. Our memories of Jesus\' execution direct how we live out our lives.\\n\\n"Do we remember only his honest cry of feeling forsaken, \\u201cEloi, Eloi, Lama Sabbachthani,\\u201d Aramaic for, \\u201cGod, this sucks!\\u201d and not his words of forgiveness to those who have done this, his words of comfort to those who love him; his compassion for the repentant thief? " Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=327&id=715.'