Inside the garden tomb looking out....
The entrance to the garden tomb...there are places to sit and I do so. Thinking in my mind how Mary Magdalene loving Jesus as she did must have felt....She watched him die. Then she watched as they removed his torn body from the cross. She stayed close to the body never falling to far behind. She watched as they took him into this tomb. Weeping....weeping for all that she thought was gone. Wondering what she was thinking as they rolled the stone into place....Was she simply thinking; "it's over?" But it was far from over.......Oh how she remains me of......so many of us "women," we can only grasp with our hearts with what our eyes can see......We have faith........but not enough to just believe................But oh how gracious the Lord is........He waited........waited until the men were gone and their wept Mary...........and He called her name.."Mary."
She thought it was the gardener......then she realized "RABBONI."
The tomb is surrounded by resplendent gardens.....
The burst of color with the well tended flora take you to a quiet place......a coolness that you feel, even in the heat of the day.....It draws Amy and I in......along the carved paths into the rocky earth....
Communion Site..................
How many times? How many times do we bury the living Lord in the graves of ourselves whom he changes?
The Holy Spirit of God himself lives within us.......lives within us to change us..............to take us from the death to the life.......................This is the gift!!!! May we remember every time that we faithfully eat and drink in remembrance of what He has done.............that the Holy Spirit within us is the same as if Jesus was right in front of us........How different would our lives be if Jesus was standing face to face with us?
We are living the full..................the full life. We have no hunger for Jesus because we are the full.....full of the things of this world............on this Maundy Thursday what shall we do? What shall we do to the emptying of ourselves? Isn't the emptying after all the way to the fullness of Christ? We need the purging kind of emptying....we must remember..........
EUCHARIST.....(Holy Communion) let us celebrate in rememberence of what Jesus himself modeled for us..........
When he gave His disciples bread..........He said; "this is my body and wine saying this is my blood....
Leonardo da Vinci's 1499 mural painting in Milan, Italy being perhaps the best known example. The Last Supper, is the final meal that Jesus shared with his Twelve Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as "communion" or "the Lord's Supper"
May we cry out today: "Holy, Holy, Holy.........let the whole world be full of your Glory......................
