Hosanna!
This is my favorite time of the year! I love Ash Wednesday, Passover, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and then it's quiet until Easter when He rose! I miss the tradition that we learned in the Lutheran Church I worked in, where on Maundy Thursday they stripped the alter and it was quiet. It was like stripping Jesus of everything, his flesh cried out and He wept for He believed His Father had Forsaken Him. Do you ever feel like God has forsaken you? Do you ever feel like He doesn't really know what you are going through? He does! He really cares for you! This day we sing Glory in the Highest, Hosanna, Hosanna. In John 12, John tells us about what happened the week before Easter. John 12 New King James Version (NKJV) The Anointing at Bethany 12 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, [ a ] whom He had raised from the dead. 2 There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one