Good Friday: When Things Fall Apart

Good Friday makes us face what we try to avoid: loss, failure and the limits of our control.

Here, everything unravels. Jesus is rejected, abandoned, and put to death. From every perspective, it looks like the end. Yet, Jesus does not resist or attempt to reclaim control. Instead, He entrusts Himself completely:

“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”— Luke 23:46.

This is not defeat. It is surrender—not as giving upon life but as giving over to God.

Good Friday shows us that God is present not only in strength and success, but also in weakness and loss. The places we avoid the most are places where something deepest is being formed.

This is difficult. We are shaped to fix, to solve, to control. But not everything can be fixed, and not everything needs to be.

Some things are meant to be entrusted. And in that entrusting, something begins to shift—not always around us, but within us. We begin to discover that even in loss, we are not alone, and even in darkness, love remains.