Alright day

Do you know what one of the worst feelings in the world is? Smelling someone grilling really good steak half way through a run in the neighborhood while being a Catholic on Good Friday. An other really bad feeling: trying really, really hard not to laugh when it's quite and hundreds of people are looking at you. I had both feelings today. The latter was for a second during the Stations of the Cross at church today. Every year, the high schoolers put on a reenactment of the Stations on Good Friday. This year was my third and final year. Despite the moments of uncomfortable laughter bubbling in your chest, being a part of such a powerful production is one of the greatest feelings (though I did lose feeling in my legs by sitting on them for so long during the procession). In practicing for the Stations, yea we goof off, snack on food and such. Its not until you are at the front of the church, with hundreds of people watching you, that you realize how amazing and how important what you're doing is. After we finished the performance, old ladies came out crying, little kids wanted pictures with us. (P.S. I played Mary and we're all dress in old fashioned "robes" and such) It's always amazing to know that simple little acts, productions if you will, can be so influential and moving. Tomorrow, go through with a little random act of kindness toward someone. Bet it will mean the world to that person, even if it's just a little tiny world in the them. We owe it to Jesus. His final act of kindness was anything but simple or random, but he set forth an example for us to follow.

Stations of the Cross 1950
Henri Mattise

1. Jesus is condemned to death
2. Jesus is given his cross
3. Jesus falls the first time
4. Jesus meets His Mother
5. Simon of Cyrene carries the cross
6. Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
7. Jesus falls the second time
8. Jesus meets the daughters of Jerusalem
9. Jesus falls the third time
10. Jesus is stripped of His garments
11. Crucifixion: Jesus is nailed to the cross
12. Jesus dies on the cross
13. Jesus' body is removed from the cross
14. Jesus is laid in the tomb and covered in incense.