Yeah, I’ve missed a few weeks on this Saturday Share business. God has had other plans for my weekends and I’m okay with that. I love doing this post each week but I’m also all about that grace and I hope you are too. This week I’m choosing to share with you the good words that some of my blogging friends have been posting this week. Grab your coffee and prepare to be blessed.
I happen to own a mind that is filled with fears and doubts and a frenzy of thoughts that need to be reigned in and quenched like an uncontained mental wildfire.
On March 4, 2015, this blog was officially birthed. I’m not sure I smiled out of fear of being vulnerable but I’m quite sure God smiled. And He has continued to smile over us here at EPFH throughout the last 99 posts. This is post 100. Wow! Immeasurable blessings!
As we approach the weekend that Christians remember the death of Jesus and celebrate His resurrection, our church offers a self-guided journey through that stations of the cross. I went yesterday and took my time at each station and soaked in all I could. I didn’t want to miss a thing God had for me. It was very moving and meaningful.
My mind is cluttered these days, like eye balls spinning around in their sockets cluttered, so as I began this journey I just felt that writing down single words would help me reign in my thoughts and enable me to process in snippets. I didn’t think about the words, I just wrote them down as they came to me.
The stations along the journey were:
Hand Washing
Last Supper
Pieces of Silver
His Cross
Instruments of Suffering
Garden of Gethsemane
Oil and Spices
Torn Curtain
Our Cross
Here are my journey words that I wrote along the way through Christ’s journey as he made His way to the cross to die for me- and you.
Hands
Clean
Sanctified
Justified
Name
Seek
Open
Heart
Mind
Hear
Speak
Last
Eat
Prepare
Home
Depart
End
Love
Provision
Deliverance
Protection
Journey
Forgiveness
Release
Jesus
Hold
Thirty
Pieces
Silver
Wages
Slave
Betrayal
Prophecy
Weight
Wood
Wounds
Death
Willing
Suffering
Scars
Skin
Sinful
Spike
Scourging
Sacrifice
Sorry
Garden
Pray
Cup
Not My Will
Your Will
Done
Angel
Strength
Anguish
Smell
Spices
Oil
Burial
Royal
Lavish
King
Surrender
Torn
Open
Shake
Earth
Enter
ALL
Walk
Cross
Crucified
Christ
Nails
His Death
My Life
Grace
Receive
Redemption
Hope
Worship
“Following Jesus is not about better, faster, stronger, higher. It is about recognizing our helplessness, admitting our guilt, and receiving His sacrifice on our behalf. Everything depends on the crucifixion and resurrection. Everything. That means nothing is left to depend on us. Grace is something we receive, not something we earn.” Second Baptist Church Houston, second.org
My prayer in sharing my journey is that someone will find something in these words that helps them take a step closer to the cross. If you’re reading this and you have questions about, please ask. I’m no a theologian or scholar but I know what I’ve experienced. If I don’t know the answer to your questions I will do my best to find out. If I do know, I will answer with grace and non-judgmental love.
Empty Plate . Full Heart 