Last Sunday maybe? I'm reading Luke 22: 35-53 and there are some beautiful things that are striking me.
I love in the Message version that the folks that Jesus brought to the mountain on the night of the betrayal were "drugged by grief." What a powerful phrase. Maybe it resonates so strongly with me because I personally felt drugged by grief on Tuesday; all I could do was sleep in my sorrow. It makes the disciples seem less like non-committed idiots at that moment, and more full in their love and their sorrow. I really like that.
The second part of that that really strikes me is that Jesus healed the soldier after one of his disciples cut off his ear. Wow. How have I never really heard that part of the story before? How moving is that love? To heal the one that will lead you to your death? I can't fathom it; I am trapped in my own humanity. Wow. Just wow.
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