Last year, I published a link to the controversial text of Maria Valtora's Poem of the Man God.  Sadly, the linked text has been removed and the past half hour of searching has not yielded another good one.

You can purchase Valtora's poem.  I cited it last year not to support the controversy surrounding Valtora's writings but to give some sense of what might have occurred on Good Friday. 

I remember a discussion between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Malcolm Muggeridge (I believe it was aired on Christmas Day).  Muggeridge was explaining the importance to Christians of making some human connection to God.  The importance of showing God our love in a tangible way.  Muggeridge then chuckled at the inadequacy of our tangible expressions - steeples and gargoyles was his analogy, I believe.  We build steeples while the gargoyles laugh at us.

To me, Good Friday reminds us Christians of that human connection - of the suffering that God's Only Son endured for us and our sins.

Please take a few minutes today and read the account of Good Friday.  This one is from a surgeon's perspective.