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Good Friday
(Kaieteur News) –Regardless of the religious persuasion of Guyanese, including those without spiritual leanings, Good Friday comes as a balm for the soul. After the noises that pound the local environment, the serenity of Good Friday is a relief. From the Last Supper on Holy Thursday night to the last words of a dying man nailed to a cross in a Roman province on Good Friday, solemness fills the air. A great event of spellbinding proportions is unfolding, and though it may be a mystery to some, it is a boon to a world wracked by the tribulations of wars, diseases, ceaseless quarrelling, famine in some places, and death in many.
Goof Friday, at its core, is about a great sacrifice, of a man sent from heaven to inspire some bolts of hope in a lost world. It is the stunning example of a Master Teacher and leader of revolutionary teachings, who could lower himself to the ground and wash the feet of his followers. A leader that is a servant, a leader that is humble, then inspirational enough to urge his disciples that as he did for them, they should imitate that precedent set and do the same to one another.
It is the type of thrilling idea that leads to the thought, the wish, that if only Guyana could have national leaders of that profoundness, what a different country this could be. If Guyana could have a few leaders of that caliber, how much they could lead their peers and the citizens of this country to the higher ground that is thought about, spoken for, and longed-for, yet has been so hard to come by. The thought and instinct may be there in some, but where is the drive to make it happen? The man from a humble and mocked beginning in Galilee took the first step, washed the first feet, and the world has never been the same since.
All of the 12 disciples would abandon him in the pressures of the moment, one sold him to a gruesome end for 30 pieces of silver, and still their leader had that special grace in him to wash their feet, the lowest of the low in the duties of a servant. It’s what makes Good Friday so powerful. The same man who represented the salvation of a world locked in darkness, could still pray for mercy for his tormentors as his scourged and tortured body hung in agony on a cross.
It was a cruel death from the superpower of the day, Rome, that refined inflicting pain, so as to squeeze maximum terror into flesh as it quivered its way to a slow death. And, still, there was the awe-inspiring that could be eked out of those wounds, the love amid untold bodily horrors. It is what puts Good Friday on a pedestal all by itself. A day and a name that are now inseparable aspects of homage to God, as paid by a billion believers. It is a name that commands great swathes of the world and a great many worshippers.
The names of the High Priests and the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, have been reduced to that of bit players making cameo appearances, and they only enter into consideration when the name of the carpenter’s son is part of a discussion. One of his greatest gifts to a tottering and vengeful world was love thine enemy. Where there is love, hate is overcome, on its way out. Where darkness long reigned, a unique new light rules the hearts of men and women. Love conquers all, infuses respect for others, has the potential to remake humans and point them to a new way of life. After decades of hatreds and animosities, of clawing at each other and dragging one another down, Guyanese need the lessons of Good Friday to guide their thinking to fresh new considerations about how life should be lived to extract the best out of it.
The arrival of oil has driven this country to different levels, unhealthy ones, with spiritual anchorage urgently needed. Good Friday is the embodiment of grace under fire, and from that grim moment, lessons on living life differently can be gathered.
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