"On a Pilgrimage" - 2014 Online Lenten Retreat
This is Post #10 of 16. To participate in the retreat, read the meditations & questions provided. Then follow the link to the attached article. Participate at your own pace. Read one meditati...on a day or set aside a block of time to go through all the stations at once. Your discussion in the comments section below is welcome!
STATION 9:
JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME - BROKEN BODY
Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have thought any more of his destiny? When he was cut off from the land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people. ~ Isaiah 53:8
Jesus asks: “When your body falters, do you still trust in me?”
No matter how well we care for ourselves, we are still going to age, we are still going to get sick, we are still going to die. Some people despise their bodies for not being a “perfect specimen,” but none of us is perfect. How do we learn to love ourselves exactly as God made us?
Read the story about polio in Syrian refugees.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/syrias-children/first-case-polio-suspected-among-syrian-refugees-lebanon-n49811
What you know about the effects of polio? How will it be more difficult to live with the effects of this disease in a refugee camp?
How do you find God when you are incapacitated by injury or illness? Is it easier or harder to pray when you are hurting?See More
This is Post #10 of 16. To participate in the retreat, read the meditations & questions provided. Then follow the link to the attached article. Participate at your own pace. Read one meditati...on a day or set aside a block of time to go through all the stations at once. Your discussion in the comments section below is welcome!
STATION 9:
JESUS FALLS THE THIRD TIME - BROKEN BODY
Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, and who would have thought any more of his destiny? When he was cut off from the land of the living, and smitten for the sin of his people. ~ Isaiah 53:8
Jesus asks: “When your body falters, do you still trust in me?”
No matter how well we care for ourselves, we are still going to age, we are still going to get sick, we are still going to die. Some people despise their bodies for not being a “perfect specimen,” but none of us is perfect. How do we learn to love ourselves exactly as God made us?
Read the story about polio in Syrian refugees.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/syrias-children/first-case-polio-suspected-among-syrian-refugees-lebanon-n49811
What you know about the effects of polio? How will it be more difficult to live with the effects of this disease in a refugee camp?
How do you find God when you are incapacitated by injury or illness? Is it easier or harder to pray when you are hurting?See More
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