011 - an unexpected opportunity for a eulogy.

In my calendar, today is called Good Friday. Today’s newsletter is brief.

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The invitation from my friend, Greg, was irresistible. “If there was a memorial service for Jesus, what would Nicodemus say in a eulogy?”

Nicodemus only shows up by name in the Bible three times, all in the Gospel of John. And there wasn’t a funeral for Jesus that we know of. But I appreciated the opportunity for reflecting.

Here’s what I wrote: Nicodemus 2023 (It’s a PDF so you can download it, too).

The eulogy part will be part of the service on Good Friday evening. The rest I wrote to help myself prepare.

I’m sharing this here because it was a moment for me to think about what to say in a particular hard time. And because I also had a graveside service this week, and some other hard conversations and decided that it was okay to double up on the use of some writing.

See you next week.

Jon