This week: God as Holy Week. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . God as Holy Week is the power of God alive and up-front on display so that no one will walk by and not have to deal with God's presence. It is Jesus right in the middle of the so-called "holy" places that have fallen away from the holiness of God's living presence that brings life and freedom and hopefulness and nonviolence. God as Holy Week is that strange life - given for the welfare of others. This is a life that often makes religious people - look away. It is foot-washing - bending down to make others feels welcome and at home - facing the powers of the day without matching their violence - speaking truth when lies have been the operating system that keeps things just as they always have been. God as Holy Week looks death in the face and smiles with the hope that even the power of death will sit down and endure the wonder of foot-washing and the bending/bowing of listening and assisting and loving. God as Holy Week longs to have the power of death give up the grasp on life it thinks it must have in order to stay alive. God as Holy Week longs for the power of death to join up walk hand-in-hand with the power of life - non-violence - love - mercy - and hopefulness - that is God's peaceable Reign. And yet, as is so often the case with the power of death in every age and every week - it will not take the time to wonder and envision such utter joy. O God of love and new life, when your Spirit comes upon us draw us into a love that will not let go of those we fear and those who hate us and those who we often let turn us into ones who hate them. In that love, we will move into peace. Amen. |
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