A Good Friday Story – Forgive

Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.
When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus* there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said,

Father, forgive them;
or they do not know what they are doing.

Luke 23:32-34

 

Deborah

 “No, my Lord!  No!”   The sound of my own anguished voice awakens me from a fitful sleep. Gasping for breath, I open my eyes and look around in confusion.  I recognize a darkened room of Susanna’s house in Jerusalem.  In the pale moonlight, familiar objects slowly form themselves; a chair, my sandals, a jug of water, my robe.  My heart continues to pound as a soft breeze moves through the open window.  I shiver.  My body is cold with the sweat of fear left by the images of my dream.

Were it only a dream!  I could cope then.  But this dream happened.