Walk to Jerusalem with us! (Click on this title for weekly reflection)

Hello everyone and welcome to the last week of the journey! Good News! We have entered Jerusalem as a group, earlier than expected. Perhaps we can “Prepare the way for the Lord” this week as we complete our 10 week journey. Congratulations on your efforts and may your journeys be just the beginning of a life spent walking with Jesus.  Please send along your miles so that we can calculate totals. Thanks! You’re on the final stretch, Keep up the strong work. Peace, Judy

Week 10 : Mar 13 - Mar 19

Satisfaction and Keeping On:
“Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.“
Philippians 3:13-14

We’re at the end of our walk to Jerusalem. Are you weary or are you physically more alive and spiritually more attuned? Hopefully this has been a journey of physical and spiritual renewal. Hopefully you’ve satisfied your soul with spiritual food and living water. Hopefully the increased exercise has renewed and revitalized the body God has given you and you are able to have more energy for His vital work on earth. Serving God and being good stewards of our physical body requires perseverance and commitment. It helps if we keep our eyes on the prize and run this race to win.
 
Questions to ponder:                    
How much energy and commitment am I putting into the spiritual race that Paul speaks of in Philippians?
Am I more likely to strive for excellence in my secular life or my spiritual life?
How can I keep on striving for excellence in my physical & spiritual life?
Do I need to rearrange priorities?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
Do I need to eliminate some activities?
©2003 by St. John Health. All rights reserved. Rev. 2008
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE. NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®,
Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of
Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved
 
Did you know that “adult coloring”  is “in” these days. We use it as a meditative or calming exercise in hospitalized patients and patients with long-term illnesses. I heard a very charming story recently about a man who’s wife had Alzheimer’s disease and long after she ceased to be verbal with him she would sit for hours and color with him. He said it was as much a therapy for him as for her. As we enter into Holy Week, perhaps we can meditate on the picture below as we color it. Can you place yourself in the picture? As we are entering Jerusalem with Jesus this week on our walk, where are we? How has our journey revitalized us? Our we better prepared to enter Holy week?