Tuesday, April 7, 2009
How do you feel about Holy Week?
My mother did not like Lent. She felt it was too negative, too depressing. I think she didn’t want to go where the season takes us. How about you—do you embrace Holy Week, or just wish it would get over? Please add your take on Holy Week by clicking on "comments" below.
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My kids gave me a refridgerator magnet for my birthday as sort of a joke. It says, “I love my rotten, ungrateful children.” Now, they know I would never CALL them that, particularly the “rotten” term, although I have been heard to say that I think the descriptor “grateful children” is an oxymoron.
ReplyDeleteWhat Holy Week means to me is a chance for me to reflect on how God so loves his “rotten, ungrateful children” (us) that he puts everything on the line to save us. I am astoundingly grateful for that so maybe “grateful children” is not an oxymoron after all.
As we move though this Holy Week, I am acutely aware of the suffering of other families; the parents of the missing St. Thomas freshman and another university family who is in Chicago with the beautiful 3-year-old daughter they adopted from Ethiopia as she undergoes unprecedented, experimental surgeries to try and correct a life-or-death birth defect that prevents blood from flowing to and from her liver. I know God is somewhere in the midst of all of this, just as he is in everything else. Please keep those families in your prayers and I wish you a very special, blessed Easter
Shari