Lent Meditations - Palm Branches - Darkness, Tension, and a Triumphal Entry w/Tony
The story of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem is filled with irony and tension. Amidst cheers and shouts of revolution and triumph, the Passover crowds receive Jesus with praise and adoration - laying palm branches across the road as he and his disciples make their way through the city. But, that's not all that's happening here. The road Jesus travelled into Jerusalem, now covered in symbolic palm branches, will also lead to Gethsemane, betrayal, denial, accusation, calvary, the cross, and then a tomb. Along the way, Jesus will cry out in physical, mental, and emotional anguish, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?". As Jesus enters the city of Jerusalem, Jesus enters into the darkness and tension of the human experience. As we follow Jesus, we are exposed to spirituality capable of holding both darkness and light, and in both, God is present revealing the mystery and beauty of our complexity. Sometimes, the places of darker tension within us are as fundamental to our human experience as the places of the warmest, most tender light. Lent holds this tension and refuses to look away from the truth hiding within the darkness. This week, we enter into the in between spaces of uncertainty, doubt, irony, and tension that Jesus entered into as soon as he rode the lowly mule into Jerusalem.
This episode is written and produced by Tony Duppong, exclusively for the Urban Mystics Podcast.
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