04/09/2020
Holy Week 2020 will be remembered by all of us as being very different from what we are accustomed to experiencing during this time because of COVUS-19. Today and for the near future we are required to keep distances between ourselves and other people and church meetings are also included in this prohibtion. Thus the gatherings like Evening Prayer services, Seder Suppers on Maundy Thursdays, Good Friday Liturgies have been taken away from us. For some might think that without these events we will lose focus on the significance on the events leading up to Good Friday. "What else can we do?" We might ask. Let's remember that Jesus went into the wilderness and was tempted there. In a wilderness we can meet God. Jesus was away from everything. Let's, for a moment, realize that to be in the wilderness for us is not traveling to a remote location to sit there.Today our homes can be a place of wilderness if we choose to do so. All we need to is to close off all media and other noises. When we shut off the noise around us we create wilderness. In this place we can set our hearts on listening for God to speak to us. We can pray. We can open the bible and meditate on it,The common lectionary provides us with a healthy number of readings suitable for this week. We can read them and learn from the words in them. To start, let us not take the largest ones. Let us take a smaller one and seek out what God might be saying to us, or should I say Me in it Can we try to wonder what God is trying to say to us and what He is doing in and behind the events of the selected passage. Can we ask ourselves if there is anything from this passage that we may apply to our lives. When we enter this wilderness we will be with God and have a better chance of hearing Him. If we view the situation that we are in, let us look at it as a fast. - a time to miss out on some activity and spend time with God. The result will be that the week will not be lost .
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