Spend Good Friday with Jesus. He appreciates your company. You can spend the time doing these things:

Fast. Perhaps eat some soup for lunch.

Visit the Stations of Cross. This step-by-step remembrance of Jesus’ journey to death is found in most Catholic churches and in many others, too. If you can’t go visit one, you can watch one on YouTube.

Light a candle. Begin at noon.

Pray. Go before the Lord as you consider your own sins that He is carrying as He dies. Seek His forgiveness and His peace.

Read the story. “A Harmony of the Gospels” , available in a variety of translations and formats, aligns all four of Jesus’ eyewitness biographies to take you through the day … and through His life.

Meditate. Think about the sentences Jesus spoke from the cross.

• Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
• Today you shall be with me in paradise.
• Woman, behold your son! Behold, your mother!
• My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
• I thirst.
• It is finished.
• Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

Blow out the candle at 3 p.m.

Attend a Good Friday service at your church of choice.

Your presence with Jesus makes Him happy. Just imagine that.