Palm Sunday

I lead devos at SB every Monday morning. It keeps me on my toes. Usually on Sunday night around 11pm, or Monday morning around 9am I suddenly remember that I need to prepare.

Yesterday morning I was reading the “Palm Sunday” reading from “Common Prayer: A Liturgy for ordinary radicals” and thought, “oh, it makes sense to talk about this today” – but I also decided to look at the devo calendar and see what was on the schedule for today.

I decided to go with the reading on the schedule (it had so much beautiful truth, even though I didn’t really know how I was going to explain the passage…was definitely over my head in the Bangla vocabulary department). But then I sat down and one of the women says to me, “Oh Moushomi di, yesterday at church we read the most beautiful word from the Bible. It was about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. And people were waving branches at him and worshiping him. We should read that this morning.”

So we sing – and then it’s time to read the Bible, and I ask if anyone knows what next Sunday is…and we start talking about how it’s good Friday…and then Easter  and then “B” is so excited that she  tells the whole account in her own words. About how Jesus knew when he went to Jerusalem what was going to happen, but because He loved us so much he went anyway.

It was so beautiful. This excitement and adoration and worship just bubbling out of her. She couldn’t contain  the beauty and joy of what this week holds. She just had to share it.