Good Friday is so good.  There is no hefty Anglo Santa, dressed in red velour driving a team of flying reindeer, nor is there an amazon bunny toting marshmallow chicks and psychedelic eggs (I mean really? Why does every Christian holiday have be have some kind of mascot on Nitrous Oxide?).  On Good Friday, no one demands copious amounts of candy or feels disappointed when their gift list isn't fulfilled.  It's not even a holiday about community, family, and generosity.  No nominal Christian, Agnostic or Atheist can jump on this bandwagon. Good Friday is a day when people from all over stop what they are doing, and get solemn.  When, the faithful take the time to connect with the past, and recall what was happening 2,000 + yrs. ago, at noon, on a small hill called the Skull, where OUR best friend was unjustly executed in front of a public audience of jeering crowds. Snapshots of a bloodied man, wine mixed with poison, our BELOVED crying out for His Daddy.  This is a day of power.  It is a day when, our GOD bled and died, naked, between two criminals.  You can't get around this day.  It's not like Thanksgiving where the object is to glut yourself with food and relationship.  It is a day when you must decide, will I stand alone for my beliefs?  Will I carry my own cross, and yield up everything that I have been given to the Giver, trusting that He will give it back?  As the sky darkens on this day, and we remember the eclipse, are we prepared to have our temple curtain shredded, in order to truly gain access to LIFE?