The journey we began 43 days ago picks up steam today. The build up has been long. It’s like we’ve been slowly climbing to the top of the roller coaster, and it will come flying down the hills and loops in the next two days. I hope you are ready.
But the reality is this: it doesn’t matter if you and I are ready or not, it’s coming. Good Friday is coming, and as painful and hard as it is, we cannot stop it. And then Easter is coming, and no matter how tough life is in these moments, it will not matter that we ‘don’t feel like celebrating’. Because these days are not based on us at all. They are all about Jesus.
Yesterday, Megan preached a beautiful sermon at the Lenten service that reminded us of that fact. She talked about the woman who anointed Jesus’ body with the perfume, whom the disciples got angry with because of the waste. She talked about how alone Jesus must have felt. And how that small act would have given him a glimmer of hope about the days ahead. Some scholars even believe Jesus would have still been able to smell the perfume that the woman used as he was hanging on the cross, reminding him, that in spite of what his eyes told him, there was reason to hope, that God was still breaking through in this world.
So as you walk through these next few days, as you attend services, prayer walks, prayer vigils, and other such religious activities, take a little time to focus on your relationship with Christ and what he means to you, but also spend some time giving honor to Jesus, sitting with and thinking about who he was and what he went through as a living, breathing human being.
Blessings,
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