As I prepare to remember the sacrifice of my Lord and Savior this evening, I recall Mel Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ”. I watch it every year at the time of Easter, and this scene has always defined how I view that “Good Friday” so long ago.

Yeshua was indeed God made into flesh. But he was also a mother’s son. How difficult it must have been for the woman who knew He was born to Her to bear the sin of the world. And how lowly are we who so often take that gift for granted…