"On a Pilgrimage" - 2014 Online Lenten Retreat
This is Post #4 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 meditatio...n 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 3:
JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME - HUMAN FRAILITY
He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured. ~ Isaiah 53:3-4a
Jesus asks: “You who would be my other self, can you accept without complaint your human frailties?”
Disasters sometimes strike without warning, and our human bodies are no match for wind, water, fire, earth. We learn that even the strongest among us is subject to the elements of nature. It is frightening to be out-of-control, at the mercy of something for which you are no match.
Read the story of the Harlem building collapse.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harlem-building-collapse-seven-dead-74-hurt-n51546
How does this story illustrate the frailty of the human condition?
What life lessons do you draw from this story?
Where do you find God in the midst of disaster?See More
This is Post #4 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 meditatio...n 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 3:
JESUS FALLS THE FIRST TIME - HUMAN FRAILITY
He was spurned and avoided by men, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom men hide their faces, spurned, and we held him in no esteem. Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured. ~ Isaiah 53:3-4a
Jesus asks: “You who would be my other self, can you accept without complaint your human frailties?”
Disasters sometimes strike without warning, and our human bodies are no match for wind, water, fire, earth. We learn that even the strongest among us is subject to the elements of nature. It is frightening to be out-of-control, at the mercy of something for which you are no match.
Read the story of the Harlem building collapse.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harlem-building-collapse-seven-dead-74-hurt-n51546
How does this story illustrate the frailty of the human condition?
What life lessons do you draw from this story?
Where do you find God in the midst of disaster?See More
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