Holy Week Reflections
04/04/2007 01:37 PM
| Christianity
Here is a prayer that I
discovered this week, and which has touched my heart:
Dear Lord, as I
approach your cross, I am like the disciples who ran.
I love you and I want to be a good servant, but
getting close to your cross is difficult.
I'm not sure why. I want to say that it is just a
struggle to let you die for me. I resist responding
gratefully. I resist seeing in your death the mystery
of my life.
When I behold you there on the cross I see the
meaning of life. You are completely who you are
there. Giving your life away you receive it. The
grain of wheat falling to the ground and dying.
I see the meaning of my life. To love as I have been
loved by you. To be your disciple is to take up my
meaning and to follow you. To receive my life only by
giving it away is to bear fruit that will last.
As I embrace your cross please give me the grace to
place my life in your hands and become day by day a
servant of your own mission.
(http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Lent/prep-goodfriday.html)
May
God bless you all as you contemplate His death and
resurrection this coming weekend.
--Lisa Joy