Palm/Passion Sunday is coming. The triumphant arrival of Jesus to Jerusalem and the short term success of his enemies of his death on Good Friday.
I don't have children but I am well aware of the kind of sacrifice it takes to be one. I know that being a good parent is more than simply "doing" the right things. There is a difference between the concept of giving up one's life for your child and really wanting to do so on their behalf.
How do you take that very real attitude of self sacrifice for another and expand it to cover all of humanity? How do we achieve that same level of real love of neighbor? How do we achieve that level of love of enemy?
Triumph followed by tragedy followed by triumph. Part of our Lenten journey is about learning how not to use our own value system when looking at ourselves and our situations and our neighbors, and instead learning how to look at the world through God's eyes. Then and only then do our temporal earthly sorrows truly become stepping stones to a glory greater than anything we can imagine.
Read and worship and meditate deeply this next week so that Easter can truly be the great joy that God has intended for us!
Grace and Peace,
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