Tomorrow is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. If there was ever a fourth quarter in Lent this is it. Football games are won and lost in the fourth quarter. In Lent, no one is keeping score and the only loss is opportunity, but still if there was ever a week to fast, pray, meditate, study, and serve this is it.
Holy Week is celebrated like no other religious holiday. We commemorate the very basics of the Christian faith. A faith based on humility — where we don’t celebrate accomplishments and strengths, instead we acknowledge and lay bare our failures and weaknesses.
If I may suggest, spend some time before Holy Week begins in full in a conversation with God whatever your faith. In that conversation, allow yourself to be vulnerable much like Christ allowed himself to vulnerable. If you do, I expect you will experience a love that surpasses all understanding.
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