HOLY WEEK
THE HEALING OF THE WORLD
THE HEALING OF THE WORLD
If you start with Genesis the first insight of the Scriptures is that Creation is marvelous. Then something happens. Humanity discerns that it has failed to live up to what God asks it to be. There is a deep sense we have marred creation by not reflecting the glory of the one whose glorious beauty is seen in the rest of creation, the Planets and the Plants, the Stars and the Seas, the Alps and the Animals.
Some ancient people even wondered if our missing this mark is the cause of some of the other ills in the world like earthquakes and lightning storms. Whether that is accurate or not, it is true that we could take much better care of the world than we do.
Soooooo, what does it look like for us to live into the fullness of who we are called to be? How could we display the glory we see the rest of creation reflecting, and thus be part of the healing of the world? Take a moment and think about it.
We did this in the Campus Minisry and the students did incredibly well. They said we need more empathy and compassion. They said we could act more out of wisdom than ignorance. They felt humanity could care for others better, especially those who are different to us. These are dreams of what we could do to heal our world.
Holy Week is when we celebrate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, a person we felt was healing our being out of sync with God's glory, and what happened? He died. It looked like the dream of the world's being healed failed. It felt tragic. But on Easter God raised Christ. Easter proclaims that if we are faithful to seek God with everything we are God, not us, will heal the world by empowering us to be the presence of Christ in the world!
Holy Week and Easter is the central story in our faith that God has healed the world. We are seeing it unfold in our life as we surrender more and more to Christ. Come live out this drama this Holy Week.
Have a blessed week,

Father John