A Friday Said to be Good

(Taken with GX200, edited in PhotoScape for the flare)

Today is Good Friday, a day when the Christians remember the nailing of Jesus Christ on the cross some thousands of years ago. Religion is something which cannot be seen or touched but trusted. Where are we from and where are we going to after this life have been the eternal questions asked by believers and non-believers alike.

So, where are we going to?

(The road is leading to where? I thougt to mself when I took this photo on a hill at night)

For a lot of times, we may think that things are under control in our hands. But we just even don't know what is going to happen to us the next minute. I have a friend who celebrated for his newborn one day but cried over the baby's loss of over 50% of the degestive system the other day for no apparent reason. It happened some years ago. He is still facing the consquences with an iron mind. Another friend of mine in Australia lost her son who died after falling from height at home. She won't have expected it the minute before, would she?

(The warm glow of the cross and the environment colours in late evening that day caught my attention. This is an old chruch building tucked away in a rather quiet neighbourhood which used to be a residential area popular among the British migrated to Hong Kong from their homeland)

So when someone argue with cogent reasons against Jesus Christ, I doubt if that person really knows that religion is something to be trusted. If God is the one that a person can know by just reasoning, that god will be no smarter than the person is.

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