Holy Week

Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” John 12:23-25

Jesus clearly knew that he was about to die, but also that glory awaited him on the other side. As his followers we suffer too. We grieve and die. And yet, as the apostle Paul says, we ‘do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.’ (1 Thess. 4:13) Our grief is tempered by hope, because, as C. S. Lewis said, “[Death is] only the beginning of the real story… the Great Story, which no one on earth has read which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”

Grace and peace,

Anita Sorenson
Pastor for Spiritual Formation