Holy Week?

"Holy Week" seems to get more an more unholy each year, as we become more pressed for time, more focused on the immediacy of life around us, and less willing to take time apart not only to read and study God's Word, but to truly reflect on it. I find myself far more likely to do the "reading for the day" than to take time to really interact with it and reflect on it.

Holy Week

It is now the week before Easter, and liturgical churches will celebrate "Holy Week." When I taught in a Christian school, we also observed this week by reading, learning, and interacting with the events leading up to the crucifixion and Resurrection. However, as a "writer" and attender of a church that does not very closely follow the church year, I find this week will be quiet until we get to the Good Friday service, which I will miss this year. I'm reminded of Scrooge in Christmas Carol, keep Easter / Good Friday in your way, and let me keep it in mine. I hope that I will indeed keep the season, with reading, reflecting, and "partaking" of God's Word.