Friday, April 8, 2022

Preparing for Holy Week

 


On Sunday we begin our holiest week of the year.  We enter a narrative that is a story as old as time and a song as old as rhyme.  From moments of joyful prayers of “Hosanna”, to intimate breaking of bread and sharing a cup, to kneeling beneath the cross, to the silence of Saturday, and to an Easter morning where hope and love leap forth from a tomb.  This story is our story.  Moments of welcoming God into my life joyfully like on Palm Sunday.  Moments when I gather with those I love the most at a meal and feel connected like on Maundy Thursday.  Moments of heartbreak and soul ache, especially when I realize my own brokenness and mistakes and missteps at the cross ~ nor does violence save us either.  To moments of stillness when hope is not even on the horizon.  To the serendipitous ways of the Sacred that beautifully baffles me like on Easter Sunday.  This is your story too.

Where has your heart been filled with joy recently?

When has a meal connected you to someone in a new way?

When have you felt the grief of loss and the weariness of the world?

When have you been speechless?

When have you felt your Spirit leap with Easter love?

 

Your experiences and encounters of living Holy Week are a prayer to God.  Bring your prayers and whole life to worship this Sunday as we welcome the One who rides on, rides on in majesty in our hearts and shows us the way of life in such a time as this.  Hosanna.  Amen. 


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