It’s Friday

Posted by Leona Bergstrom

They call it Good Friday. It’s hard to see the good today.

A friend is dying of cancer.
Another friend has miscarried – again.
Moldova is in political upheaval and violence.
There are old people are living in their cars in Seattle.
A sense of doom hovers because of global economic crisis.
Everywhere I turn there is sadness and loss.
It doesn’t feel very “good.”

Several years ago I heard Dr. Tony Campolo preach. He shared the lines of an African-American preacher’s sermon, “It’s Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’!” It helped put it all in perspective for me. The promise of Resurrection Sunday is victory.

Here is an excerpt:

It's Friday, But Sunday's a Comin'!

It’s Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’.

It was Friday, and my Jesus is dead on a tree.
But that’s Friday, and Sunday’s a comin’.

Friday, Mary’s crying her eyes out, the disciples are running in every direction like sheep without a shepherd. But that’s Friday, and Sunday’s a comin’.

Friday, some are looking at the world and saying, “As things have been, so they shall be. You can’t change nothing in this world! You can’t change nothing in this world!”
But they didn’t know that it was only Friday, and Sunday’s a comin’.

Friday, them forces that oppress the poor and keep people down, them forces that destroy people, the forces in control now, them forces that are gonna rule. They don’t know it’s only Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’.

Friday, people are saying, “Darkness is gonna rule the world, sadness is gonna be everywhere.”
But they don’t know it’s only Friday, but Sunday’s a comin’.

Even though this world is rotten, as it is right now, we know it’s only Friday.
But Sunday’s a comin’.

Yes, it is Friday. And it is Good. There is hope because Sunday is a comin’!