I loved what you shared with me last night about the part of the sermon at Midtown on Sunday when Randy asked the question, "Where are you going this week?"
Not only is this Holy Week, but it is the week you all are making the move to Pittsburg.
As you make this big move and step out in faith, may this prayer for Holy Week below carry you through and give you bread for the journey.
Lord Jesus Christ, prepare our hearts to walk with you the rest of the way this Holy Week.
Help us find ourselves in this part of your story and not run from the pain and the unanswerable questions contained within it.
Draw us to sit with you at the Last Supper where you shared your heart so tenderly with your friends and also faced your betrayer honestly and without malice.
Help us to stay awake in the Garden of that Dark Night, wrestling with the death and dying that must take place in order for your will to come forth.
Give us the wisdom to know, as you did, when it is time to lay down our life so that some day we can take it up again.
Give us the grace to endure the pain of witnessing your humiliation and rejection so that we can more gracefully endure our own.
Help us to be as gut-wrenchingly honest as you were when you cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
Grant us the courage to let go when it is time. Grant us the patience to wait with you in the silence of death until you call forth the resurrection.
Amen. -Ruth Haley Barton
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