Today is also Easter. . . Happy Easter! I love the readings around this time of year. Good Friday has the one that goes "There was nothing stately in Him, nothing that woudl make us look at Him. . . He was scorned and rejected by men. . ." And there is something so powerful about the angst with which Jesus proclaims, "My God, why have you forsaken me. . ." And then all the readings during the Vigil about the history of the Israelite nation, and I wonder. . . how different the world would be if people had been better. . . How God used to walk and talk with His people directly, but how they always betrayed Him. . . I wonder, if this is sacreligious or not, if God at some point changed, from punishing us as we deserved, to setting Himself down instead to suffer for what we did wrong. There's a huge distinction in the way that God deals judgements in the two periods. . .