Overcoming in the Wilderness

This week’s exploration of the wilderness experience coincides with Palm Sunday which marks the beginning of Holy Week in the Christian tradition. It was on this day that Jesus arrived  in Jerusalem to celebrate the Jewish Passover.

This is the backdrop for the whole Palm Sunday experience. Later in the week, Christians will celebrate Maundy Thursday. These two celebrations derive from the same source: The Jewish Passover which celebrates the great event in the life of Judaism, Moses leading the Israelites out of their bondage in Egypt.

What no one seemed to know was that Jesus was on the last lap of a lifetime of personal overcoming. His life had been devoted to proving the divinity within humanity. He knew that the truth could not be fully demonstrated until he had gone through, even grown through, the experience on the cross.

What are you overcoming in order to more fully know your own divinity?

 As we are learning, we have built a great deal of our identity around our perceived limitations rather than the true greatness of our identity in Truth, which is Divine.

As we continue to grow into the fullness of our oneness with the Divine, we too must be prepared to leave some of our limited understandings and behaviors behind.

This is another gift of the Wilderness experience- in between Endings, and New Beginnings. 
If we can stay present to the expereince, we are afforded clarity into the greater depths of our being, and the mere coverings of identity begin to fall away.

As we make our way to Easter, let's take time to consider what we are ready to leave on the cross in order to more fully claim and express the depth of our own Divine Nature. 

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