From Palms to Palms ...

The journey that is Holy Week has begun ... the Palms have been waved, the "Hosannas" have been shouted, and the wandering homeless one has been welcomed in as a triumphant King ...

But such adulation is fleeting at best ...

We know the journey that leads from "Hosanna" to "Hallelujah" travels through some dark and painful places ... place many of us are afraid to trod ...

Yet, the words echo within us ... "through the Valley of the Shadow of Death ..."

The darkness lies ahead as we move from the palms that we waved over our heads triumphantly to the palms that are pierced by rough hewn nails ...

We move from celebrations to savagery ...

... thankfully God takes the broken moments and the darkness and guides us to the full breaking light of EASTER Morning where transformation and Resurrection reign supreme and we claim the Fullness we deserve ...

It all begins with the words - "The Body of Christ Broken for you ..."

Thanks be to God !!!
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As Ann Weems writes:

"Holy is the week ...

Holy, consecrated, belonging to God ...

we move from Hosannas to Horror

with the predictable ease

of those who know ot what they do ...

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... the only road to Easter Morning

is through the unrelenting shadows of that Friday.

Only then will the alleluias be sung;

only then will the dancing begin ..."