Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Over the past few weeks, I have experienced the joy of meeting my new granddaughter, seeing my grandson, and visiting my kids, I have experienced the ordeal of getting sick with Covid for a second time, again living in quarantine for two weeks, I have experienced the challenge of facing multiple travel obstacles, grieving as I missed Holy Week and Easter services with you, and finally getting home and experiencing the joy of our time with Rev. Dr. Jim Antal. Quite frankly, I feel like I have been on an exhausting, emotional rollercoaster. As we look at our gospel reading this morning, I think the disciples have been on an exhausting, emotional rollercoaster, one much more intense and traumatic than the one I experienced, and they are now experiencing emotional overload.  First, there had been that tension-filled yet joyous entry into Jerusalem which was followed by a Passover meal unlike any other. Then, there was that intense experience of Jesus’ betrayal and arrest.  They had witnessed jeering mobs as Jesus