Thoughts from here and there…Readiness
Readiness is a common everyday process that we use. Readiness implies how you dress for the events of the day Readiness takes in the food that you might eat for breakfast or for any meal, whether it is at home or in a restaurant. Readiness covers the preparation that is needed when you are planning a trip. Whether we acknowledge it or not rediness is an important process. It eould be sad and embarassing if you were not ready.
The season of Lent is time for getting ready.
Readiness invites us to take a long view of Jesus Christ as he prepares for the Last Supper, the crucifixion, and the resurrection on Easter morning.
For us this ought to be a deeply humbling experience. We are to take what Jesus did for us personally. It is for you and me.
You recognize the substitution of Jesus for you not only intellectually, but you feel it emotionally. Johann Christoph Arnold in his book, Seeking Peace writes:
“Humility is not just gentleness or meekness. It demands vulnerability, the willingness to be hurt. It is readiness to go unnoticed, to be last, to receive the least. Humility offers nothing in the way of peace as the world gives–and plenty that destroys it. Yet it describes the way of Christ better than any other word. It is the way of Christ. And as such it brings the deepest and most lasting peace.” (Johann Christoph Arnold, Seeking Peace(Farmington: The Plough Publishing House, 1998), 123.)
To find the peace of Easter, we ought to go through the humility of Lent.
May your journey through Lent be a productive one.