It was a beautiful day, a glorious service, and wonderful sermon by Luis, that I can not give justice to by trying to even hit the highpoints. Cherry blossoms and flowers are in bloom and we begin Holy Week in a festive mood. We are brought back to reality by the reading of the passion and the reality that to get to “Hail the Festival Day, we go through the pain of the death upon the cross.
Jesus even during the last few days hoped that there was some other way his purpose here on Earth could be accomplished without having to experience the suffering he was about to undergo. Like all of us he prayed for another way.I have found myself asking in much less significant matters to let there be another way — another way less painful and less painful for those I love so very much. Perhaps you have had or will have that experience as well.
This is why we all need faith. Faith that at times we must accept the tough times ahead. Faith that we will endure, not without pain, but we will endure. Faith finally, that at some point in this life or afterwords that we will sing, “Hail the Festival Day.”
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