Holy Week

http://www.esvstudybible.org/maps-charts

My Bible has a chart that shows the Harmony of Events of Holy Week from the four gospels. You can check it out at the link above. The things that really stand out to me, speak to my heart during Jesus's include Matthew 23:37 where Jesus laments over Jerusalem "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stone those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!" I can almost hear the longing and pain in his voice. I also love John 13-17. One of the things that always sticks out in my mind was learning that all 6 of Jesus's trials both Jewish and Roman were conducted illegally the one before the Sanhedrin took place in the middle of the night with hurriedly gather false witnesses.

Palm Sunday

I love Palm Sunday. For me celebrating it helps prepare my heart for Good Friday and Easter. Try to imagine a week like that, on Sunday you enter a city with people praising your name and by early Friday morning they are demanding your death. As Easter comes I'll post more about Holy Week.

Powerful Beyond Measure

"Our worst fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'who am I to be so brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God: Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~Marianne Williamson, her book "A RETURN TO LOVE", 1992
I first heard the beginning part of this quote in the movie Akeelah and the Bee, which is an excellent movie. I identify with it and am inspired to try to be my best self and let my light shine.