Palm Sunday is coming up! It's one of my favorite celebrations of the Christian year. It's a time to do more than just 'regular' worship. The palms, the excitement, the anticipation of Easter morning. It's almost enough to make me forget about Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Almost.
Northside's Maundy Thursday service next week will be at 6pm in the Sanctuary. Session has agreed to serve communion, and I'm getting to choir to help with a tennenbrae type service. By the end, all the elements will have been removed from the chancel/sanctuary, and it will be left bare. Deserted. Just like our Lord in the tomb.
But that's next week. Right now we're preparing for the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem! It makes me realize that I'm just as fickle as the crowds who cheered Jesus' arrival one day and called for his crucifixion by the end of the week. It's like helping someone out in a move of genuine charity, and then getting pissed when someone causes you a minor inconvenience.
That's happened to me before. It'll probably happen again. I just pray that God would continue to work in me so that he can work through me.
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