Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ –
“Were you there when they crucified my Lord?”
As I write this, we are rapidly approaching the end of Lent. We will soon be starting Passion Week, that annual spiritual pilgrimage from the “Hosannas” of Palm Sunday to Communion amid gathering darkness on Maundy Thursday, from Good Friday’s cries of “Crucify him!” to Easter’s proclamation that “The Lord is Risen! He is risen indeed!”
“Oh…..Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble”
It’s a road Christians travel, not only once a year according to the liturgical calendar, but many times in our spiritual pilgrimage through life. We pass through times of consolation and times of desolation, times when we can feel God’s presence closer than our breath, and times when the words of Jesus on the cross tremble on our lips: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me.”
“Were you there when God raised him from the tomb?”
As Christians, we know that the journey ends, not on a lonely hill beside a cross, but in the garden beside an empty tomb. Despite the worst of human sin, God’s resurrection life has the last word.
“Were you there?”
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