We will meet together Sunday at 9 am (link here) to worship and seek God’s face together. The scripture this week is traditionally Palm Sunday. This time we will not be waving palm branches but sitting in our homes and connecting to the story together. I will enact part of the story for us to reflect upon together. We know the story -- we know how Jesus entered, the people rejoiced and the priests complained, but we don’t often slow down to go more deeply into the story. This week we will do that deeper dive. Did you know this story has connections back to Daniel? And just as it connects back, it connects forward to us, today. God has a message to place in our hearts as we walk together.
It was during troubling times that Jesus mounted that donkey and that colt of a donkey and rode into Jerusalem -- it was the week of Passover, there was an overflowing crowd of people in the city, and the Romans still occupied the area. The Jews felt under the Roman foot. The Jewish leaders felt a need to appease their rulers.