Good Friday service is a comfort to Wimberley

Good Friday or the Friday before Easter is always a sad day and a sad service for Christians throughout the world. In Wimberley though, the Good Friday service at the United Methodist Church is comforting to all who attend. Coming together at the Easter Season, the First Baptist Church, Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, St. Stephen’s Episcopal, Unity Church, Presbyterian and the Methodist Church come together each year to join in their ecumenical service to honor and praise Jesus Christ.

Religion has the power to divide or unite. It was special to see Wimberley uniting and remembering the Savior being whipped, abused, suffer a mocking crown of thorns placed on his head, made to carry his own death instrument, the cross on which he will die, and then finally a brutal death on a cross. It is sad to think about, but it is also necessary to think about his redemption and Resurrection on Easter Sunday. There can be no Easter without Good Friday. Yes it was sad, but coming to sing hymns together and bearing our sorrow together, makes the burden easier to bear, where on Easter morning we can say to everyone “He is risen.” This is what a community is all about.