Atonement. At-one-ment. What was separated by an abyss of wrong has been reconciled by the deed of perfect love... Today, here at the cross, our eyes are fixed on the dying derelict who is the Lord of life. We look at the One who is everything that we are and everything that we are not, the One who is true man and true God. In him we, God and man, are perfectly one. At-one-ment. Here, through the cross, we have come home, home to the truth about ourselves,home to the truth about what God has done about what we have done. And now we know, or begin to know why this awful, awe-filled Friday is called good.
From "Death on a Friday Afternoon: Meditations on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross", by Richard John Neuhaus
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