Holy Week: Life in the Garden
Using Ignatian imaginative prayer to engage our emotions and know Christ's journey through Holy Week
I invite you to take a deep breath, put your feet up perhaps, or plant them firmly on the ground.
It is Holy Week.
A week when we are invited to ponder the suffering and resurrection of Christ, and the people’s movement from waving palm branches shouting hallelujah, to shouting for a brutal killing.
Throughout lent, I’ve invited those reading my Wounds to Wisdom series to notice your internal movements, your turning toward your True Self and God with you, and moments of turning away and letting your false self lead. Ignatius called these consolation and desolation which we will be exploring more in coming weeks.
Doing this interior work with grace and compassion, acknowledging your false self and addictive behaviors, and surrendering to the Spirit, is a form of dying to self.
“Many of us feel guilty if we restrict our availability or are slow to respond to a perceived need because, as Christians we are taught always to put our own needs second. However, 'dying to self’ really has more to do with the letting go of the 'false self’, the ideal face we show to the world so the 'true self’, the loved-by-God-warts-and-all-self, can breathe and dance. ~Sue Pickering, Spiritual Direction: A Practical Introduction
Pause and consider: what is your ideal face you to show to the world?
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